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Bug#460288: openoffice.org: can't open file with non-latin name when OOo is already running



notfound 460288 1:2.3.1-2~bpo40+1
found 460288 1:2.3.1-2
forwarded 460288 dev@lists.go-oo.org
thanks

Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Package: openoffice.org
> Version: 1:2.3.1-2~bpo40+1

Backports.org is not in the scope of this BTS. But I'd think that this
would also apply to the "normal" package so I'll leave it open and
re-mark it.

> After upgrading openoffice from etch version to etch-backports version

There's no "openoffice" in etch. Neither anywhere else. Did you mean
openoffice.org? ;-)

> If:
> - OOo is already running (e.g. one document is already opened),
> - I use KOI8-R locale,
> - another 'oowriter /absolute/path/to/file_with_cyrillic_name.odt'
>   command is executed
> 
> then OOo does not open document, but instead shows an error box that
> file is not fould. In that box, all cytillic letters are replaced by a
> black box.
> 
> If OOo is not already running, then it opens file ok.
> If OOo is already running, and I try to open document with relative file
> name, then it opens file ok.
> 
> If OOo is already running, then file with absolute cyrillic file name
> may be opened only by command
>   oowriter `echo /path/to/file | konwert koi8r-utf8`
> 
> But if OOo is not yet running, the above command does not find the file.
> 
> So it looks like when OOo detects that another copy is already running,
> it somehow assumes that absolute filenames are utf8-encoded, while
> relative filenames are locale-encoded.

This sounds like the problem described at
http://lists.go-oo.org/pipermail/dev-go-oo.org/2008-January/000242.html

> 2.0 version did not have such issues.

Upstream changed their IPC protocol in a bugfix release (2.3.1)...

Grüße/Regards,

René
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