Bug#487948: openoffice.org-writer: writer exporting to .doc: greek characters in eq.s are (almost) lost

[Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it>]

Rene Engelhard writes:
 > tag 487948 + moreinfo
 > thanks
 > 
 > giacomo boffi wrote:
 > > when i save a document containing a formula with greek letters to .doc 
 > > format, the greek letters (or more, see later) disappear when opening 
 > > the .doc using some sort of word 
 > 
 > Unreproducible. I don't have Word.
 > 

i find very hard to think that you have not a single correspondent
that uses word, but whatever

 > > here i have a very minimal example,
 > > 
 > >      i open a new oowriter document, insert a ole formula object 
 > >                        "sin ( %phi ) = 3 + 4 a" 
 > >      then i "save as" example.doc, put my saved example.doc on a usb key
 > >      and later open using (a) word2004 for mac or (b) word2007 for windows 
 > >  
 > >      in (a) i have an equation with a "?" in place of phi, and nothing 
 > >      that i can do, except erasing the "?" and manually inputing the 
 > >      "phi" symbol in equation editor 
 > >  
 > >      in (b), using a collegue's pc, there are 3 empty boxes displayed 
 > >      [][][] in place of (phi), but this can be changed in equation 
 > >      editor selecting the three ??? that appear in place of the empty 
 > >      boxes and changing the font 
 > > 
 > > as you can see from (b), some information is there (in the word
 > > document's equation, i mean), and some information is missing...
 > 
 > Does this also happen in a "normal" build from www.openoffice.org?
 > Please try, and if yes, file an issue there please (and tell me the
 > issue number so I can mark it as forwaded).

yes, it happens

but i do not want to register with openoffice.org to file a bug report

my best regards
                                                                        gb

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