Libreo 7.0 encoding problem

Richard_c · December 22, 2020, 2:21am

I’ve installed the 7.0 when it was released, and encountered encoding problem immediately. I have tried to remove the user profile under “C:\Users<user name=”">\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user" , but it does not help. I tried it again today, but the problem is still there.

The encoding issue is that when I open any file created by previous version (6.4) containing Chinese Character (traditional Chinese), all the characters will be encoded wrong. However, when I print the file or copy them into other word processor (Notepad or even browser), they are correctly encoded.

I will uninstall 7.0 for now and go back to use earlier version, but please check into this. I have seen other user mention this, but did not say if this is solved. Cheers.

Zizi64 · December 22, 2020, 5:44am

Are these documents ODF type files?

Richard_c · December 22, 2020, 5:50am

Yes, they are. Most of them are created using version 6.4.

gabix · December 22, 2020, 6:16am

Share a sample file. First suspect: missing/wrong fonts.

Richard_c · December 22, 2020, 8:34am

Original file (Created using ver 6.4)

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Open in ver. 7.0

Same file in WordPad

gabix · December 22, 2020, 12:29pm

OK, got it. Now share a sample file. Screenshots are (except for very rare cases) useless to identify the cause of the problem. The only thing I can see is a weird font name (normally fonts do have names in Latin letters).

Richard_c · December 23, 2020, 2:06am

same file.
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gabix · December 23, 2020, 6:25am

File not found.

Advise: when using file sharing services, avoid CJK (and other complex script) characters in file names.