Created attachment 108688 [details] html saved as xls I am trying to move from Open Office 4.1.1 to the Libre 4.3.2. The department I tried this with has a process where they save information from a website into OpenOffice CALC and then save it as .xls. These files can NOT be opened using Libre CALC (4.3.2) with the .xls extension. If I change the extension to .html it of course opens by default in a browser just fine. If I right-click and open the .html file with Libre CALC it opens the Import Options dialog box and I just hit OK and it opens fine inside Libre Calc. (Font default as Liberation Serif but thats another issue). The bug is that Open Office opens these files just fine as they are (.xls) and Libre Office (4.3.2) does not. It appears that there were bugs with this same feature in previous versions but they said the newer code would have the patches built in....
Hi msaum, Thanks for the test file, I'll investigate soon.
@David: Hi, Can I cherry-pick [1] to 4-3? In that case I guess it worth also adding [2], to make sure we don't create a regression for --convert-to? [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=86c6f18c2766aad43d6e3bfcf3530e40440ebca7 [2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=24d20bce789063f6dba2df1c5d2c5a8948d24370
@Maxim those patches fix the issue? I can provide some aditional details: It's a regression, it worked in LO in versions up to 3.6.x at least, in 4.2.x the bug is already there. I'm not sure if, as Mateo said, the bug was introduced while fixing other issues. It's interesting that LO is being being able to detect and open properly this kind of files, just it's not detecting *some* of those files. The bug is fired if the file contains certain special characters (or bytes), in 8 bit encodings. In Mateo's sample file, it's Windows-1252 "trademark" character (byte of value 0x99). Removing the ofending character the file opens fine. In my particular case (also a 3rd party app mimicking Excel generated HTML files), the file is encoded as as iso8859-1, failing with "masculine ordinal" character (byte of value 0xba) I also found that opening the file in a text editor, changing declared encoding to UTF-8 and saving as UTF-8 makes LibreOffice open the file properly, as a Calc spreadsheet.
Will this be fixed in 4.3.x.x because it doesn't work in version 4.3.6.2 either? It is fixed in 4.4.x.x, however that version introduces a problem with the horizontal bar being "missing" when viewed by a MS Excel user.(Bug 89058) I guess I am stuck waiting for 4.5? OR whenever OpenOffice gets their next version out OR MS Office.
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Close this issue. It seems to be fine in LO 5.2.2