hungarian o" and u" characters in openoffice/msoffice
Dear list members: I have created a slide presentation with Openoffice.org Impress. (Suse Linux 9.2, Openoffice 1.1.3) Since the language of the presentation is hungarian I used special hungarian characters, like ő (o") and ű (u"). I have to show the slides somewhere where only windows and MS Power Point is available. Therefore I have saved my presentation from openoffice as power point (.ppt) file. When I checked the presentation on a windows machine opening it by MS Power Point I realized that the above characters were replaced by o and u. I tried several font types (arial, times new roman etc) but the result was the same. For checking the origin of incompability, I created a slide with MS PP in windows containing the above characters. Opening the file with the WINDOWS VERSION openoffice, the characters looked as expected (normal). Then I saved this slide from openoffice as openoffice file (.sxi) Reopening the file the characters looked normal. Then I saved from openoffice this slide as .ppt. Opening this ppt with MS powerpoint, the o" and u'' characters changed again to o and u. Please if you know what can cause this problem and how to correct it, or know a place where I can get more info write. (Since this is urgent, I had no time for googling and check openoffice. org site yet) TIA, IG
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Gabor Istvan <.> wrote:
Since the language of the presentation is hungarian I used special hungarian characters, like __ (o") and __ (u").
To keep compatibility, never-ever use these two Hungarian chars in your files & filenames, use ö and ü instead! I had constantly (~frequently) problems with the above two even on Hungarian locale e.g. while mailing my friends having win* and/or lin*. Then I decided to move on without _any_ special characters. That was about two years ago and as next I'm still attempting to get all of the win* people around not to use any ß (-> Vienna, Austria) in their stuff :) Pelibali Ps. FYI: you will see __ for your special chars... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Peli's server just rocks on Clan of Xymox's "There's no tomorrow" & the next song will be "Dominion/Mother Russia" by 'Sisters of Mercy". -------------------------------------------------------------------
To keep compatibility, never-ever use these two Hungarian chars in your files & filenames, use ö and ü instead! I had constantly (~frequently) problems with the above two even on Hungarian locale e.g. while mailing my friends having win* and/or lin*. Then I decided to move on without _any_ special characters.
Thank for your answer. I did not talk about characters in filenames. I had these problems with characters in the presentation slides. Cheers, IG
Hi, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:55:19 +0200 (CEST) Gabor Istvan <.> wrote:
To keep compatibility, never-ever use these two Hungarian chars in your files & filenames, use ö and ü instead! <...>
Thank for your answer. I did not talk about characters in filenames. I had these problems with characters in the presentation slides. Cheers, IG
My reply was rather a warning which concerned exactly the two special characters you just mentioned. I wanted to point out possible problems using these chars "in your files" (~inside) and "(in your) filenames". I'm sorry, still don't know the answer to your original question, but I would take this topic seriously, because if you use that special chars and skip an important point of the conversion-receipt, you can have easily corrupted data. Hope you manage to get back your ö"-s and ü"-s soon ;) ciao, Pelibali
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