Description of problem: AFAIR, there are some sort of encoding selection in file dialog in older version of openoffice.org to enable user to select what encoding is the documentation. However I cannot see with current OpenOffice with new GTK2 file dialog. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.9.96-2 How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. OOwriter 2. File -> Open 3. Cannot choose file encoding 4. Choose a document in native encoding, such as eucJP Actual results: file content is scrambled Expected results: file content should be read correctly Additional info:
Should still be there as "Text Encoded" which opens the .txt file and pops up a dialog to request the format. Try in a recent OOo e.g. 1.9.100-1
Just tried with 1.9.100-1 but cannot see that dialog. Will attach eucJP and ShiftJIS encoded for you to test. Also does opening .sxw or .doc have similar functions?
Created attachment 114149 [details] ja_JP-eucJP.txt
Created attachment 114150 [details] ja_JP-SJIS.txt
Created attachment 114969 [details] the "Text Encoded" option in the file open dialog
Created attachment 114970 [details] the dialog that opens after the .txt file is then selected
Created attachment 114971 [details] the shift-jis example opened
The three pictures show how to specifically set the text encoding of a txt file. Select filter of "Text Encoded", open the file, the dialog appears. Override the encoding and font etc and I get the two documents to open in what appears the right way. .sxw/.docs have no such "override" stuff as it doesn't make sense for them. .sxws are in utf-8 and .docs are generally in ucs-2, and when not specify internally the encoding they were written in.