Just some additional info:
I've just tested cut&paste from Firefox to OpenOffice and everthings
works fine. It makes no difference which option I choose at "Preferences
-> Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Advanced -> Default Character Encoding",
it works with "Western (ISO 8859-15)" as well as with "U
Same problems here in Kubuntu 7.10.
echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
dpkg -l '*openoffice*' | grep ^ii | awk '{ print $2 }'
openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-common
openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-help-en-us
openoffice.org-hyphenation
openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-java-commo