To reproduce the problem, download file sig3.dot attached to bug 84965 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=107780> and open it from the command line. I expect to see the document area starting with a horizontal line and text "I am primarily assigned to an inbound call queue. I can attempt". Instead, Writer shows the rtf markup, starting {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033\deflangfe1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}} {\colortbl I do not know whether the file in question is valid. However, if I rename the file to sig3.rtf, it is rendered correctly by Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: b80c468e35ee321b5580b42642064f74f9241fb6 TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2014-10-14_07:06:12 Without the rename, that version too shows the rtf markup.
Created attachment 107843 [details] bibisect output I did a bibisect in the 43all repository. Each of the "skip" versions from ba096f4 on presented a msgbox General Error General input/output error except 4e504a2, for which I forgot to run LibreOffice.
It's again libwpd heuristics. That's because this file includes several 0x96 & 0x97 chars, which are considered as WordPerfect single character function codes. After replacing them all with some ASCII chars, the file opens correctly. The current solution is to give the file the right extension (rtf in this case). (See also Bug 78731 for a similar issue but regarding variable length function codes. Especially note Bug 78731 comment 6.) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 80016 ***
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (bibisected) [NinjaEdit]