Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with writer files

2015-01-24 22:52 GMT+01:00 Andrew Miller <asmiller2222@gmail.com>:

> Everything was working great until two days ago, I can no longer read any
> of my saved files in doc format.
> It opens into garbled text like this:
>
>  Íòmë
>
> #>3jÄe_M?7kÒcŨWQyS#C<l¹jíŸ#ó�DÚ`WŽ{Œ#ñ·ÍÁ%×v#&JÙ»HdÈ#\”†‡#|#îƒK«#�Mˆkûò¿¦Òi-##’´#ðáo&¹#iû8ðª&˜s!ô(Vò$¨eJD€PC9¥µWIv‰3…GÚÈ#ß
>
> ys—…+1�×#Ý###Ùq<âæ#u#Jô:4ŽWKÈ×_B›Û-0mç
> ˆï,I^úyõ,ˆZ6´a�Q28š#–#ô#—¾X#©¸î;Ÿ ö
> '9\¸+:�±â8³#š#Î>ò;èçV,‰Â°T#ÁDÿxÆÁÉ–�áÙ6”ƒ
>
>
> Documents that were created in the past week open up with no issues,
> just my previously saved documents converted from word are the issue.
>
> Any help is appreciated

​Andrew, to me this sounds more like an encoding problem than an LO problem​
​ - you would normally want your documents to be encoded in utf.8. What
operating system are you using ? If Linux, this web page might prove
helpful : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale....

Henri

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