Is it even legal html to have something in that location (before the doctype)? It might not be the best loose parser to show garbage if there is an illegal character at that location, but garbage in garbage out...
To get OpenOffice.org to even recognize UTF-8 text at all you have to add the meta tag telling it what character set it is in: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Assignee: Chris Cheney (ccheney) => (unassigned) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- Starting BOM in HTML is treated as text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189229 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs