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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 2 13:25:23 +0000 2007 ------- I was not able to consistently reproduce the bug on WinXP, using OpenOffice Build 2.1. However, upon further testing, a similar defect was found. This bug only seems to occur upon first installation of OO Writer. The steps to reproduce the defect are given below: 1. Create a file special_chars_test.doc as a Microsoft Word 2003 file. Type a few lines of special characters, especially mathematical, Greek, Arabic and Farsi symbols. 2. Exit Microsoft Word and open OpenOffice Writer (Build 2.1). 3. Open the special_chars_test.doc file in OO Writer. 4. All characters appear correctly so far. 5. Exit OO and run the Wordpad application and open the same file in Wordpad. 6. Save the file in Rich Text Format (.rtf extension) and then exit Wordpad. 7. Run OO Writer again and open the file saved in RTF format. 8. Some symbols will appear as a question mark, which is not expected. Specifically, only the foreign language symbols (Arabic and Farsi alphabet) appeared as question marks. However, it is to note that the second time these steps were followed, OO Writer recognized all symbols correctly and it could no longer reproduce the bug. Hence, it seems this is a state-dependent bug that can be reproduced in special circumstances. When the bug was replicated, no other .rtf or .doc document was present within the folder in which the files were saved. For further follow-up testing, OO Writer was uninstalled and re-installed and the above steps were again followed. This time, some characters again appeared as question marks. It seems the bug occurs when OO Writer is used for the first time. It is to note that special symbols consistently appear as question marks in OO Build 2.0.4. The only work-around to this in Build 2.1 seems to be closing OO Writer and opening the file again, which then seems to recognize all characters. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
