Unable to change encoding to UTF-8 in Open Office

Question

I see the following when I look at a document in Finnish

alt text http://files.getdropbox.com/u/175564/oo-bug-finnish.png

The problem seems to be in encoding. I am not sure which encohing OO uses by default.

I can see the documents in terminal without the encoding problems. I wrote the documents in Vim where the documents are readable.

How can you change OO's encoding to UTF-8?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '09 at 15:29

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This issue may not be an encoding problem, but a font issue, the font may not have the characters you need. Try changing the documents font to something basic, like Times New Roman and see if your characters reappear.

answered Jul 04 '09 at 15:29

Sam Cogan

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Thank you for the hint! --- The problem was not in the font but in the encoding. --- UTF-8 was not enough. The correct encoding is Western European. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Jul 04 '09 at 16:57

Unable to change encoding to UTF-8 in Open Office

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