OpenOffice doesn't work with files which names is non-UTF-8

[Eugene86]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

OpenOffice can't open/correctly save files with russian names in KOI8-R charset. (when system and filesystem charset is not UTF8 but KOI8-R)

[Eugene86 (eugene86)]

i don't know why here is "openoffice.org-amd64 (Ubuntu)", i've chosed openoffice.org (i am on i386) seems it is malone's bug. Please change product.

[Damien Nozay (dnozay)]

just changed product
-- damien

[Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron)]

I have the same with an OpenOffice.org and french ISO-8859-15 locale. Confirming the bug. Are other locales than UTF8 supported ?

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

Confirmed also for directories in Openoffice 2.0 under Kubuntu Edgy.

You can "Open" a file contained into a directory whose name is not UTF8, but when you save it the application tries to re-create the whole path with only UTF8 names.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

What is the output of the command 'locale' for the people having this problem?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Jacob Popov (j-a-popov)]

I had the problem with Kubuntu 6.06, now I have migrated to Ubuntu. In
Ubuntu 7.10 the bug doesn't seem to occur.

If there have been no replies for some time, I'd suggest marking the bug
as fixed.

Thank You,

Jacob Popov

В Чтв, 15/11/2007 в 23:52 +0000, Chris Cheney пишет:
> What is the output of the command 'locale' for the people having this
> problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Cheney
>
> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Cheney (ccheney)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="it_IT.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

uqbar,

I am not certain but I think that OpenOffice is using UTF-8 since you are set to UTF-8 mode for your locale. If you changed your locale to match the filenames you were trying to work with it might work for it as well... since you are currently telling it you are using UTF-8.

Chris

[Eugene86 (eugene86)]

No! What for me, I have Ubuntu 6.06 with KOI8-R (Russian) locale, all files on my FS are in KOI8-R encoding, but OpenOffice from Ubuntu 6.06 can't handle them at all!
So I have to use mainstream version of OpenOffice.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Eugene,

So what is the output of 'locale' for you... I was primarily asking you earlier since you were the original bug submitter. The output should look similiar to what uqbar posted.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Eugene86 (eugene86)]

Here it is:
$ locale
LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R
LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_MESSAGES=ru_RU.KOI8-R
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.KOI8-R"
LC_ALL=

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

The point is that if I choose to use any non ASCII-7bit character for a directory name, Openoffice is not able to "find" it.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

uqbar,

When you pick non ASCII-7bit character filenames are they in the UTF-8 space or some other codepage? If you are using UTF-8 for locale and some other codepage for the directory name it probably won't work.

Chris

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!