[wellylug] Quotes in M$Word docs, opened with OpenOffice

Jonathan Harker jharker at massey.ac.nz
Mon Mar 22 10:38:01 NZST 2004


Lyndsay Mountfort wrote:

> Hi Luggers
> 
> Don't know how I've lasted this long without getting to the bottom of 
> this, but I hope someone can help!
> 
> Opening M$Word documents in OpenOffice 1.1, quotation marks in the 
> original (presumably Word smartquotes) appear as question marks. Is 
> there a simple solution to this?
> 
> They're obviously not actual ? characters, but rather a placeholder for 
> something that OO or Linux can't cope with - searching for ? doesn't 
> find them.
> 
> I'd be grateful for any tips...
> 
> Lyndsay

Maybe it is something to do with the font being used, as not all fonts have 
all the Unicode characters?

J




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