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Bastian Guest
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: Problems with special characters like Ohm, Rho, Lambda etc. |
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Hello!
My professor provides from time to time some exercises as .doc files. When I open these files with MS Office 2004 it's showing me all the special characters correctly. But I don't wanna use MS Office for some reasons (I can run it only with admin rights, it's just the trial version). Unfortunately NeoOffice doesn't give me the special characters, they all are removed or replaced by standard letters. Had someone the same problem and found a solution for it?
Thanks
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sardisson Town Crier
Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: |
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Without seeing the document, this is either the famed "other OOo modules use a different rendering engine than Math" OOo bug, or the "MS Office/MS Windows apps mis-encode Greek characters" bugs (see bug 747 / bug 1040 / bug 1704). _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki |
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Bastian Guest
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:05 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your help sardisson. I tried a few things after I had read the bugzilla articles you had sent me.
First I opened the word document in TextEdit and the greek symbols are shown correctly. Then I opened that document in OpenOffice.org 2.1 on a windows computer, also no problem. It also seems to me that my professor didn't use the equation editor. If you have time to help me I could send you that file or put it on a server and post the link. |
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jgd Agent Smith
Joined: Feb 27, 2005 Posts: 1531 Location: France
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sardisson Town Crier
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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I'll be happy to have a look at the file if you want to post it somewhere and post the link.
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki |
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Bastian Guest
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Bastian Guest
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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I just found that. I guess it answers my question. Unfortunately there is no real solution for my problem. But thanks for your help guys.
Greek characters and bullets in Word (or OpenOffice.org for Windows) documents don't display correctly
This is because these characters were entered with non-Unicode values in Word, and the OpenOffice.org import filters do not convert the characters to Unicode ones. This seems to be Mac-only OOo bug (or a bug that is only manifest on the Mac, since OOo on Windows has access to Microsoft fonts and Windows methods of mapping characters). Unfortunately, since this bug appears to be Mac-only and Mac OS X is not a "tier 1" platform for Sun and OpenOffice.org, the OpenOffice.org developers who could fix the bug seem to have ignored it.
There is a very hacky work-around available in NeoBugzilla Bug 912 that will allow you to force the characters to display properly, but it will break proper handling of Greek, symbols, and bullets in the rest of your Mac applications and it will not actually "fix" the characters—only make them display as they did in Word or on Windows so you can, eg., produce a hard copy with the correct appearance. |
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pluby The Architect
Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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There is one other workaround. It's a hassle, but it won't destroy any data:
1. Opent the /Applications/Font Book application
2. Click on the "Symbol" font.
3. Select the Edit -> Disable Symbol Family menu item
4. Restart NeoOffice
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pluby The Architect
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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FYI. A fix for this OpenOffice.org bug will be include in upcoming NeoOffice 2.1 release. It was tricky to implement, but NeoOffice 2.1 will force ooo-build's enhanced OpenSymbol font to be used when a document wants to use the Symbol font.
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Bastian Guest
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:30 am Post subject: |
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Thanks again. To print my electrical engineering documents I will disable the symbol font. And for the future I look forward to 2.1. |
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