OpenOffice and utf8

[Matthias Klose]

Ralph wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> My System (hoary/amd64) fully runs with utf8-locales. All of it works
> fine exept openoffice (1.1.3-8ubuntu2.3).
> If I start openoffice I get a few logs like this one:
> -
> #> (soffice.bin.real:18334): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8
> to STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not
> supported
> -
> The rest of openoffice works fine, but some special german characters
> like ö, ä, ü, etc... cannot be displayed.
> 
> Is there any possibility to fix that?

it works for me, you can safely ignore the messages (warnings only). You
may want to have a look at the current breezy packages using a snapshot
of openoffice.org2 (or 1.1.4 in the universe repository).