[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: OpenOffice question

[Fred James]

Mike Hart wrote:
> You're more likely to have luck with a pass through to a desktop word processor, then save and reopen in ooo.    That is, view in konqueror to copy, then paste into koffice, save as word, then reopen in openoffice. 
>
> and if that doesn't work..  The clipboard is the most likely culprit.. if you can set the desktop locale to French, you likely won't lose the accents. 
>
> --- On Mon, 8/30/10, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
>
> From: Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net>
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT: OpenOffice question
> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Date: Monday, August 30, 2010, 7:13 PM
>
> OpenOffice 2.2.1
>
> We have a need to
>  copy and paste from the Internet, in particular French language text (obviously with accents and such), but OpenOffice looses the accented characters.
> I suspect that is a character set problem, but I am drawing a blank on what to look for and my searching isn't coming up with anything helpful so far
>
> Thanks
> Regards
> Fred James
>   
Mike Hart
Thank you ... although Konqueror (on my box anyway) botched the accent 
characters even worse, that thought set in the direction of a solution 
... from Epiphany I can paste to 'vi' and then to OOo, or directly to 
OOo ... the result is a bit different, but the accent characters are 
good!  Thanks
Regards
Fred James