Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 80190
accents on letters not stable in document!
Last modified: 2008-10-23 16:19:14 UTC
I use dead keys to add accents to letters like this one: é. I have a certain document that when I open it in OpenOffice displays the accents display. When I first open a new document in which I set the font to Times New Roman (like the font in the other document), and then type some letters with accents they appear all right. When after doing this I open the document that shows the accented letters wrongly they suddenly are all right. But this is temporarily, when I save it, and then open it again without first opening a new document like I did above, the letters are erratic again. I will add screenshots showing the right and the wrong letters. It might have to do with editing the same document in Linux and Windows... However, I have installed windows fonts in linux, including the Times New Roman that gives the problem. To be sure, right now I deïnstalled the msstcorefonts and added the windows font directory under linux, so I really am using exactly the same Times New Roman now, and there is no other Times New Roman on my computer, I have checked this. Thanks for reading, Thomas.
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Reassigned to SBA.
I have reread my description of the problem, and have to admit that my description is not very clear, nor accurate. Hereby another try: Situation 1: No openoffice document is opened on my computer nor is an openoffice application. I open the document. It displays accents wrongly, as shown in the first attachment. This means that almost all types of accents are displayed different than they shoud. For example ï might become Ô and so on. Situation 2: No openoffice document is opened, nor is an openoffice application. I startup OpenOffice wordprocessor and a new document. I set the character to Times New Roman and type a list of accented characters using dead keys. They appear correctly. If the I open a second document, the one that gave problems in situation 1, this document displays accents the way it should. So in some way the second document displays differently depending on what other document is opened first. Situation 3: If I open the document that displays accents wrongly in situation 1 in OpenOffice for Windows, it displays accents correctly. Situation 4: If I change the document in situation 3 a little bit (add a letter) and then save it (all this in windows!), and then open it again under OpenOffice for linux, the problem no longer exists. So my document now behaves correctly. This doesn't change the fact that it is strange that a document behaves differently depending on what other document is opened at the same time. I still think it might be usefull to look into this, especially because it might have to do something with compatibillity betwee Ooo for window and Ooo for linux. Anyhow, Thanks for looking, Thomas.
@sba: probably a duplicate to issue 88376
Resolving it as a duplicate to issue 88376. Please check with a version that has that fixed, e.g. OOo30 rcX Feel free to reopen if the problem still happens. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 88376 ***
SBA: Closing issue.