Created attachment 105030 [details] Text with which the problem occurs. I have an older text in format .doc which was generated using OO. Trying to open using LO Version 4.2.2.1 produces errors. See pictures.
Created attachment 105031 [details] picture showing what OO shows shows correct text.
Created attachment 105032 [details] picture showing what LO shows LO does not show correctly what OO shows correctly.
Why does the more modern LO 4.2.2.1 not show correctly what OO 4.0.0 apparently did?
Confirmed in master. The document is obviously malformed, but MS Word is able at least copy the contents out without crashing.
Have tested a little bit more with different versions of LO. Last version, which shows the right text, is LO 3.3.4. First version with the wrong text is LO 3.4.0beta1. So I set the version to 3.4.0 release and the keyword "regression".
The document is a "Word 6.0" document. It opens fine in Word 2010, in SoftMaker 2012 and opens fine in OpenOffice 4.1.1, if you use the correct filter "Word 6.0/95". It is an error of LibreOffice, not of the document.
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=47b84f7e5143f445a087fc9ccc4fb29bbd88ff64 Resolves: fdo#82904 non-Japanese ww95 documents claiming ms932 encoding The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Its not as straightforward as working in any given version and a simple regression. Word 95 is a pain wrt text encodings
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6194e5019954a8680144ee584b04735f3cb3d74b&h=libreoffice-4-3 Resolves: fdo#82904 non-Japanese ww95 documents claiming ms932 encoding It will be available in LibreOffice 4.3.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.