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Old 03-06-2011, 06:08 AM   #1
DavidMcCann
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OpenOffice Writer lockup


I've just installed Scientific Linux 6 (equivalent to RHEL 6) with OpenOffice.org 3.2.1

If I click on a file to open it with Writer, the program locks up. If I run Writer first and load the file, all seems to be well. But if I launch Writer from the command line, I'm left with the error

UTF-8 encoding error. Missing continuation byte in 4. character position:
esia?nrtolcdugmfphbyvkw-'.zqjxSNRTLCGDMFPHBEAUYOIVKW????ZQJX?????????
This UTF-8 encoding can't convert to UTF-16:
esia?nrtolcdugmfphbyvkw-'.zqjxSNRTLCGDMFPHBEAUYOIVKW????ZQJX????????

The ? are my insertions, replacing invalid codes.

This happens with all text files, new or old. Has anyone else seen this, and is there any solution other than re-installing OpenOffice?
 
Old 03-06-2011, 06:55 AM   #2
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try newer openoffice or you can also move to libreoffice...
seems that OO having some encoding errors..
 
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