Re: [libreoffice-users] Pasting Foreign Language

Hi :)
His OS is Linux Mint 16  (Debian family, just as Ubuntu is so they use
the same commands fwiw)  but i didn't think to ask about any of the
other things.
Regards from
Tom :)

On 26 December 2013 12:20, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> Jerry Rémy schrieb:
>
> > 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.
>
> This kind of errors are typical for a wrong encoding. Please tell us into
> which part of LibreOffice you try to paste the text. The ways to correct the
> encoding are different.
>
> Which operating system do you use? Which application has generated the text?
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>
>
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