Certain characters broken when saving as .doc for Word <=95

[Peter Júnoš]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

OpenOffice.org does not save or read certain characters (I have discovered only one) from/to a .DOC for Word 95 or Word 6.0 properly.

Steps to reproduce:
1.) Create a new document containing letter "ý".
2.) Save document in format .doc for Word 95 or Word 6.0 and close document.
3.) Open saved document - each letter "ý" is replaced by a copyright sign.

Ubuntu 9.10, Openoffice 3.1.1 - OOO310m19 (Build 9420)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 27 18:59:23 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=sk_SK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-18.55-generic
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-18-generic x86_64

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

This is known about upstream, you can read two of the reports here:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12445
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23813

My understanding is that the character support has been fixed as much as the file formats will allow seeing they do not support all of the characters that we are trying to use today. Thank you for taking the time to report this bug.