Re: [libreoffice-users] Pasting Foreign Language

Hi :)
From a quick off-list chat it seems the fault is some weird clash with
the 3rd party application that is being copied from.  Apparently if
the text is first pasted into GEdit or some other intermediary app
(such as email client) and then pasted into LibreOffice it all works
fine.  So i would hazard a guess that there is some weird formatting
marks or tags involved.

So, to dodge needing another 3rd party app and to get it down to a
single step maybe try
Ctrl Shift v
rather than just
Ctrl v
to paste and then select "paste as unformatted text".  The shift key
makes the paste into "Paste Special" which is prolly in the menus
somewhere but it's usually easier to use the keyboard combination.
Actually a LOT of times when i paste into LibreOffice i use the
"unformatted text" option, particularly when copying from documents in
MS formats because otherwise all sorts of weird nasties seem to come
along for the ride.
Regards from
Tom :)




On 26 December 2013 06:09, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 12/25/2013 06:37 PM, Jerry Rémy wrote:
> > Dear LibreOffice Team,
> >
> >          I would like to receive a liberating solution from the team
> > related to non-English languages. As I pasted an external source written in
> > French into Libre Office I get an unusual result:
> >
> >
> > Tu Útais en ╔den, le jardin de Dieu; Tu Útais couvert de toute
> > espÞce de pierres prÚcieuses, De sardoine, de topaze, de diamant,
> > De chrysolithe, d'onyx, de jaspe, De saphir, d'escarboucle,
> > d'Úmeraude, et d'or; Tes tambourins et tes fl¹tes Útaient Ó ton
> > service, PrÚparÚs pour le jour o¨ tu fus crÚÚ.
> >
> > Original Text:
> >
> >
> > Tu étais en Éden, le jardin de Dieu; Tu étais couvert de toute espèce de
> > pierres précieuses, De sardoine, de topaze, de diamant, De chrysolithe,
> > d'onyx, de jaspe, De saphir, d'escarboucle, d'émeraude, et d'or; Tes
> > tambourins et tes flûtes étaient à ton service, Préparés pour le jour où tu
> > fus créé.
> >
> >
> >
> > As you can see, every accented letter is replaced either with capitalized
> > letters or some other symbol. Please help! Thank you for your prompt
> > understanding and response to the matter at hand.
> I just took the original text that you posted above and pasted it into
> LibreOffice. It came up the first time in typewriter font, with all the
> accents.
> Then I highlighted that and set the font to Times New Roman, and it came up
> in TNR, with all the accents.
>
> I suspect that you are not using a font that has the accented characters in
> it. Try changing the font. Or see if you can download the Microsoft TrueType
> fonts--
> I'm pretty sure they have all the common accents available. This was copied
> back from LO, when it used the typewriter font.
>
>
> Tu étais en Éden, le jardin de Dieu; Tu étais couvert de toute espèce de
> pierres précieuses, De sardoine, de topaze, de diamant, De chrysolithe,
> d'onyx, de jaspe, De saphir, d'escarboucle,
>
>  d'émeraude, et d'or; Tes tambourins et tes flûtes étaient à ton service,
> Préparés pour le jour où tu fus créé.
>
> And this was copied back after I turned it into Times New Roman:
>
>
> Tu étais en Éden, le jardin de Dieu; Tu étais couvert de toute espèce de
> pierres précieuses, De sardoine, de topaze, de diamant, De chrysolithe,
> d'onyx, de jaspe, De saphir, d'escarboucle, d'émeraude, et d'or; Tes
> tambourins et tes flûtes étaient à ton service, Préparés pour le jour où tu
> fus créé.
>
>
> I don't know if the example will survive email, but it is in Times New Roman
> here, in my Thunderbird email ready to send.
>
> --doug
>
>
>
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