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Bug 103298 - Problem with workbooks containing norwegian characters
Problem with workbooks containing norwegian characters
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: General
1.0.x
Other other
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-01-13 02:15 UTC by Havoc Pennington
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Havoc Pennington 2003-01-13 02:15:47 UTC 
Bugzilla-Product: gnumeric
Description:

  Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75560
  for the original bug report.




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-01-12 21:15 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, jody@gnome.org.
Comment 1 Jody Goldberg 2003-01-13 05:06:18 UTC 
Sadly the truth of the matter is that gnumeric-1.0 has pathetic handling for
character encodings.  We operated in the user's locale and that was pretty much
it.  When loading files some of the importers were smart enough to do
reasonable mapping from the encoding that was saved to the current encoding.
Indeed the xls importer was the smartest about it.  It tried to do reasonable
guess mappings if iconv failed (eg for latin-1 accented characters it would
substitute the unaccented version).  Fixing this was a large process touching
most major subsystems.  There is not way to backport the utf8 conversion from
1.1.x.

Sorry.