[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: OpenOffice question

[Hank Ivy]

On Monday 30 August 2010 10:45 pm Chris Cox wrote:
> i18n is hard.  It's not always just one piece of software... it's a
> coordinated thing to get i18n stuff right.

Try to tackle it one piece of software at a time.

Can you type the characters, or use a character select tool to enter the desired French 
characters into the OO document?  Solve this first.  Play games with the font selection, and 
character sets.

Can you display the characters in a Konsole CLI?  Change the character set by selecting  
"view", "character encoding".  Use a Hex editor to change characters in a small text file, and 
cat the file to the console.  You can validate the hex editor using the octal dump command.  The 
"od" command will output several formats.

Open the small text file into an OO document.

Chris Cox is correct when he said that the characters can be transformed for you (It thinks it 
is doing a favor for you.) by any one of several parts of code involved in the initial display, 
copy, clipboard, paste, and redisplay processes.

Use "paste special" when pasting unusual text.  Try all of the options given to you by "paste 
special" to find the option that works.

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Hank Ivy

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