[upstream] [3.1] DDE link doesn't preserve encoding

[Xavier Poinsard]

Fixed in OOo 3.1

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You create a spreadsheet containing non ASCII chars.
Then you create another spreadsheet and do a special paste using linking
You obtain the non ASCII chars as two unrelevant chars.

There is a workaround : change the LANG environnement variable to a wrong one, for example from fr_FR.UTF-8 to fr_FR
Then you got some perl warnings :
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "fr_FR.UTF-8",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "fr_FR"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

(process:4571): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

(soffice.bin:4571): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.

But at least the DDE links are working.

This bug seems known upstream.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Confirmed upstream

[Motin (motin)]

Any chance that this gets fixed soon? Since it has been confirmed upstream for 5 years it seems unlikely that they will ever fix it?

I can confirm that the workaround works. Start openoffice using:
LANG=C openoffice

Then create your DDE links as appropriate. Note that the path to the linked file needs to be set using ASCII only in the DDE function. For instance: /home/user/uträkning.ods becomes /home/user/uträkning.ods

The bug seems to stem from the fact that DDE links doesn't support UTF-8 encodings at all.