On Wed, February 04 at 3:27 PM EST Christian Schnobrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello, > >part of my work is to write some plain text files, that will later be >put to several uses by different applications. Hence the plain text. >And because I'm lazy, I like to copy'n'paste them off the WWW... > >Now, for the copy&paste part to work, I have to set the coding system >of my editor to utf-8. If they're anything else, both gedit and emacs >will garble german umlauts in the text. >Utf-8 is fine for me -- seemingly it is the preferred coding system for >German. > >However, OpenOffice seemingly only expects Latin-1 when opening text >files -- anything else (including utf-8) will suffer. In times long >past, OOo would have asked me wich coding system to try for a given >file, but since some time (1) it will just assume iso-8859-1 and, >again, make a mess of my utf-8 files. > >(1) >The localization and coding system stuff has been nagging for quite >some time. I've messed around a lot with it, and though most things now >work better than before, OOo no longer asks for coding systems but uses >iso-8859-1 no matter what the file actually is. I'd like to revert this >if I only knew how... and as long as I won't lose the current language >support I _do_ have. > >So, I'm a bit at a loss here and don't know wich way to turn. > >cu, >Schnobs > > You could try starting OO from a shell where you are exporting the locale. I would check the output of locale to see what it is set to now. Mine is LC_CTYPE="POSIX" and I don't have a problem rendering utf8... utf8 shows up in the output of locales -a... I tried export LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" openoffice and it was still okay opening utf8 encoded files and rendering umlauts. Also in OO under Tools>Options there is a Language setting - again mine is set to "Default" and it is okay - maybe you have something other specified? HTH and sorry if I throw you off track, as this may not be your problem. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
