On Saturday 02 July 2005 20:16, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > Aviram Jenik wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Is anyone else experiencing the following problem: > > > >- Take a Hebrew excel file created on Windows 98 > >- edit it with Openoffice on Linux (locale he_IL.UTF-8) > >- Send it back to the person who sent it to you > >- They try to open it and see squares instead of Hebrew letters (what > > probably indicates that it was transformed to Unicode which is not > > available on Windows 98, but I'm just guessing) > > > >The same file can be opened on Windows 2000 (that supports Unicode) in the > >same office version. This happens repeatedly - i.e. every time I edit an > >excel sent from a Windows 98 and send it back the letters are shown as > >squares. > > Which Office version was that?
Office 2k AFAIK. BTW, I tried the suggestion of saving it in Office 95 format - still no go. Maybe a locale change would help? If so, to what? - Aviram ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
