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Bug#204636: MSWord import: "Typographical" quotes in windows-1252 becomes question marks



On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:17:08PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> When opening a Word document (I think it's a Word 6 document, possibly Word
> 2, I can provide it upon request) in Writer, the "typographical" double
> quote marks are turned into question marks. The original document is written
> using the windows-1252 encoding.

Question marks are displayed if the font that the text is displayed in does
not have the characters needed.

Are you sure that the font that you are using has those quotes?  You might
like to try installing msttcorefonts if the document uses one of the
standard MS fonts.

Chris

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