Pasting Foreign Language

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#1

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.

#2

I just took the original text that you posted above and pasted it into LibreOffice. It came up the first time in typewriter font, with all the accents.
Then I highlighted that and set the font to Times New Roman, and it came up in TNR, with all the accents.

I suspect that you are not using a font that has the accented characters in it. Try changing the font. Or see if you can download the Microsoft TrueType fonts--
I'm pretty sure they have all the common accents available. This was copied back from LO, when it used the typewriter font.

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.

And this was copied back after I turned it into Times New Roman:

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.

I don't know if the example will survive email, but it is in Times New Roman here, in my Thunderbird email ready to send.

--doug

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
It worked fine on mine but then i am using Ubuntu. Are you on
Windows? Have you tried other fonts such as "Liberation Sans"? Which
font are you using?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

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

#5

"Jerry Rémy":

As you can see, every accented letter is replaced either with capitalized letters or some other symbol.

It can happen when you paste the text from a badly made PDF file; in that case there's no easy solution except search-and-replace.

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
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 :slight_smile:

#7

Hi :slight_smile:
From a quick off-list chat it seems the fault is some weird clash with
the 3rd party application that is being copied from. Apparently if
the text is first pasted into GEdit or some other intermediary app
(such as email client) and then pasted into LibreOffice it all works
fine. So i would hazard a guess that there is some weird formatting
marks or tags involved.

So, to dodge needing another 3rd party app and to get it down to a
single step maybe try
Ctrl Shift v
rather than just
Ctrl v
to paste and then select "paste as unformatted text". The shift key
makes the paste into "Paste Special" which is prolly in the menus
somewhere but it's usually easier to use the keyboard combination.
Actually a LOT of times when i paste into LibreOffice i use the
"unformatted text" option, particularly when copying from documents in
MS formats because otherwise all sorts of weird nasties seem to come
along for the ride.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: