I'm running Slackware 15.0 with LO 7.3.2.2

Trying to run an embedded macro with mailmerge in an .odb file using LO Base

The mailmerge fails with a messagebox

Last worked on 19th May 2022.

I've not updated anything since 1st May 2022

The .odb file hasn't been updated since 30th March 2022.

Any thoughts as to what's going wrong.


Alex

When I upgraded to Slackware 15.0, and wanted to upgrade Libre Office, I discovered that odb file support requires Java. I had first tried alien bob's package, and discovered that it was compiled without Java (licensing complications for Oracle's Java), so I could not open any of my odb files.

My solution was the compiled package at slackonly. https://slackonly.com/pub/packages/1...e/LibreOffice/

I am just guessing, but is it possible that there has been some sort of Java issue? Can you tell what version of Java you have, if you have multiple versions, etc? Maybe pointing to a different version?

Thanks dhalliwe

I don't think it's that.

What it appears to be is that I'm trying to save a mailmerge file called 770_David O'Dell0.odt and the MailMerge is complaining about the apostrophe in the filename.

I now seem to remember tweaking something with 16-bit or 32 bit unicode or something like that.

Need to try and remember what I did, why and where.

Must have done something silly.

The apostrophe was part of a person's name in a database field. My program used this field to generate a filename.

Replaced the apostrophe, in the database field, with an apostrophe.

Now working as expected!

Glad to hear you figured it out.

Sometimes you just need a rubber duck to talk to:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rubber_duck_debugging

Neo debugging code?

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