Bug 111937 – OpenOffice 2.0 is unable to open file with diacritics usin KDE file dialog

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Miroslav Flidr 2005-11-08 23:28:45 UTC]

I'm using OOo with KDE enhancemets (OOo 2.0.0 + kde 3.4.1). If I try to open
file whose filename contains characters with diacritics it complains that this
file doesn't exist (dialog apears where the acceted characters are replaces with
e.g. %E1, %EC insted of 

[Comment 1 Miroslav Flidr 2005-11-08 23:28:45 UTC]

I'm using OOo with KDE enhancemets (OOo 2.0.0 + kde 3.4.1). If I try to open
file whose filename contains characters with diacritics it complains that this
file doesn't exist (dialog apears where the acceted characters are replaces with
e.g. %E1, %EC insted of á, ě respectively). Passing the filename as command line
argument or using OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome work without problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile OOo 2.0 with kde use flag
2. try open filename with diacritic characters (under KDE enviroment or with
OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde)


Actual Results:  
OOo complains that the opened file doesn't exist

[Comment 2 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-11-09 10:15:48 UTC]

Hmm, works fine here. So I think this could be a problem with your Language
setup or the filesystem. Do you use UTF8 (I do)?

[Comment 3 Miroslav Flidr 2005-11-09 22:15:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hmm, works fine here. So I think this could be a problem with your Language
> setup or the filesystem. Do you use UTF8 (I do)?

I use iso8859-2. My locale settings are working Ok. My setting are as follows:

LANG=czech
LC_CTYPE="cs_CZ"
LC_NUMERIC="cs_CZ"
LC_TIME="cs_CZ"
LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ"
LC_MONETARY="cs_CZ"
LC_MESSAGES="cs_CZ"
LC_PAPER="cs_CZ"
LC_NAME="cs_CZ"
LC_ADDRESS="cs_CZ"
LC_TELEPHONE="cs_CZ"
LC_MEASUREMENT="cs_CZ"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="cs_CZ"
LC_ALL=cs_CZ

[Comment 4 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-12-02 05:47:14 UTC]

Looks like this only works with UTF8, could you try:

LANG=cs_CZ.utf8 oowriter2

and see if that helps?

see also:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-408346-highlight-openoffice.html

[Comment 5 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-12-05 06:49:59 UTC]

*** Bug 114532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Miroslav Flidr 2005-12-05 23:31:24 UTC]

Unfortunatelly this doesn't help :(. There are two differences in behaviour when
using UTF8:

1. the error dialog shows the filename ungarbled, however it still can't open it
2. when saving the file the accented characters in filename get garbled (e.g.
the filename is %EC%B9%E8.sxw instead of ě

[Comment 7 Miroslav Flidr 2005-12-05 23:31:24 UTC]

Unfortunatelly this doesn't help :(. There are two differences in behaviour when
using UTF8:

1. the error dialog shows the filename ungarbled, however it still can't open it
2. when saving the file the accented characters in filename get garbled (e.g.
the filename is %EC%B9%E8.sxw instead of ěč.sxw)

As I sad in the original description, the same binary behaves correctly when
setting OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome so the problem shows up only when using the KDE
look&feel.

[Comment 8 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-01-19 08:34:55 UTC]

Unfortunately, there is not a lot we can do here. So could you please report that upstream? In this case:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/index.cgi

as the kde-stuff still is an ooo-build-enhancement (and not in "vanilla" openoffice)

[Comment 9 Miroslav Flidr 2006-01-20 01:23:12 UTC]

Ok, I reported the problem upstream.

[Comment 10 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-01-20 11:47:53 UTC]

Could you please post the bug number here for further reference?

[Comment 11 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-01-22 03:06:05 UTC]

Here is the bug number for reference:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=144289

Closing, please reopen if there is a solution and we can add a patch

[Comment 12 Erik 2006-05-14 05:44:32 UTC]

I have this problem.