Bug 42824

Summary: FILEOPEN: Special Characters Mishandled in Imported File Formats
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: webmeister
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: bfo.bugmail, sasha.libreoffice
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.4.4 RC1   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: BSA
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:

Description webmeister 2011-11-11 07:49:29 UTC
Problem description: Special characters, including smart quotes, show up as other strange characters.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Load a Word or RTF document with special characters.
2. Look perplexed.

Current behavior: Displays the wrong characters.

Expected behavior: Display the right characters.

Platform (if different from the browser): 
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; fr; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2011091218 Camino/2.0.9 (MultiLang) (like Firefox/3.0.19)
Comment 1 sasha.libreoffice 2012-04-20 03:58:33 UTC
Thanks for bugreport
Please, attach rtf document that demonstrates this problem
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2013-05-26 22:31:53 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDINFO status with no change for at least 6 months. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDINFO status with no change in 30 days the QA team will close the bug as INVALID due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our NEEDINFO policy please read the wiki located here: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/FDO/NEEDINFO

If you have already provided the requested information, please mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED so that the QA team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed.


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QA Team
Comment 3 Urmas 2013-05-27 11:46:03 UTC
This bugreport is useless as it is.