Bug#182452: openoffice.org: can't import plain text

[Rich Walker <rw@shadow.org.uk>]

> Hi, thanks for reporting; this bug is already reported and the previous
> submitter was able to get OOo working like this:
> 
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> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=173481
> 
> I've now figured out how to fix it, but not why it was happening.
> 
> Previously I had my locale set to "C" and no locales generated, by
> reconfiguring locales (dpkg-reconfigure locales) and generating en_us
> and selecting that as my default locale, the problem goes away.
> 
> Now I can no longer reproduce the bug, even if I switch the locale back
> from en_us to C and uncheck en_us to be generated by locale. But I'm
> certain that this caused the bug to disappear.
> --------------------
> 
> Does the problem go away for you too if you follow this procedure?

Okay, after doing the "locale is en_GB.." thing earlier I've now logged
out and logged back in (under icewm rather than kde...) and the problem
has gone away.

Hmm.

Maybe the openoffice I18 message about the locale not being supported
could be made a little more verbose - like, "This may cause weird
problems. Fix by ..."

cheers, Rich.


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