Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office quitting

On 14/11/11 11:07, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote:
> Hello, Jay.
>
> I should have said that it’s in Writer only. I’m using Libre Office
> 3.4.3 (build 302), from the Ubuntu repository. I’m using Gnome Classic,
> not Unity (and on a fairly dated computer).
>
> Today was a disaster, but also may have led to a discovery. Having tried
> everything else, I resorted to purging Libre Office altogether from my
> computer and reinstalling from scratch. Same problem.
>
> Going on the supposition that the problem was specific to a particular
> document, I reconstructed the complex document I was working on,
> starting with a new layout, styles, and all the components copied from
> various places. That took me most of the day (and I’m not finished yet).
> Everything seemed to be working properly now; then, when I copied in the
> text from one particular file (a .docx file that I received from someone
> else), the problem began again.
>
> I noticed what seemed to be a space at the end of each paragraph (which,
> incidentally, is a very common feature of Microsoft files copied into
> Open Office or Libre Office). Now, though, the application would quit
> every time I tried to delete one by backspacing over it or using the
> delete key. After many failures I managed to get rid of them all (I
> hope) by selecting “cut” from the menu, or pasting other text over the
> mystery space.
>
> I saved one of these characters and pasted it into Character Map to see
> if I could identify it (and so be able to search for it in the future),
> but it won’t allow me to paste it in.
>
> If this is the source of the problem (and of course I don’t know for
> certain that it is) I would hardly expect an application to quit because
> of the presence a particular invisible character.
>
> That’s today’s episode of the saga!
>   
Hi.
When you paste from the docx, can you try "paste special", unformatted
text and gain success.
Can you paste the text from docx into a file, save and view it with
ghexedit to identify the character.
You might be able to paste the character in here to find some info.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm?q=%C9%AC&preview=entity

steve

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