Starting BOM in HTML is incorrectly decoded
Bug #189229 reported by
Christopher Yeleighton
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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OpenOffice |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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libreoffice (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
openoffice.org (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: openoffice.org
Steps to reproduce:
1. Save the following document as UTF-8 with BOM: (Note: there is a BOM between the DOCTYPE declaration!)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://
><HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >A document with BOM</TITLE ></HEAD
><BODY ><P ></BODY ></HTML >
2. Open the file with Open Office Writer.
Actual result: 
Expected result: an empty document
Changed in openoffice: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in openoffice.org: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
tags: | added: hardy |
Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
summary: |
- [Upstream] [hardy] Starting BOM in HTML is incorrectly decoded + Starting BOM in HTML is incorrectly decoded |
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Can you give more detailed steps as to how to save the document in UTF-8 BOM? I don't see that as an option in OpenOffice...
Thanks,
Chris Cheney