It is not a permanent solution, but you can open txt files through the File->Open menu of LibreOffice itself. In the Open dialog, manually select the file type "Text - Choose encoding". It will let you choose the file encoding.
...if anyone know how to permanently set LibreOffice to open .txt as UTF-8, I'm all ears ;) -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2016-01-09 12:52 GMT+01:00 nasrin khaksar <nasrinkhaks...@gmail.com>: > hi every one. > i tried both libreoffice and open office. > fortunately libreoffice recognizes the incoding of the txt files and > open them without asking about which incoding should is use, and also > about phont and language. > its a very great feature that even microsoft office has not and its > realy unique for libreoffice! > but in some cases when i want to open a persian txt file with > libreoffice, unfortunately libreoffice does not recognize the incoding > and does not open my txt in utf-8 incoding!!! > as the result, libreoffice desplays this kind of files like chinese or > japanese characters and its becomes completely unreadible! > the persian txt files characters are not display correctly in persian > and becomes unreadible! > > in these cases, is it possible to make change in libreoffice settings > to libreoffice recognizes unicode and utf-8 correctly or at least > libreoffice asks to which incoding should it use? > as i mentioned, only the cases that libreoffice does not recognize the > incoding correctly, i want libreoffice to asks like open office. > but if it becomes possible to show unicode and persian files always > correctly, its a very great and unique feature that recognizes without > asking any questions! > thanks for your help and god bless you all. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted