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On 2011-05-20T15:16:06+00:00 Christopher M. Penalver wrote:

Created attachment 46955
lessons.xls

Downstream bug may be found at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/262777

OOo bug may be found at:
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95572

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

2) 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc
libreoffice-calc:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

3) What is expected to happen using LibreOffice Calc via the Terminal:
cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/262777/+attachment/338558/+files/lessons.xls && localc -nologo lessons.xls

it displays the Russian characters correctly.

4) What happens instead is it does not. For example one has "Äèñöèïëèíà"
instead of "Дисциплина".

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-
libreoffice/+bug/262777/comments/9

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On 2011-05-20T20:39:48+00:00 timar wrote:

This is an old known bug, see http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32785
Your file is in Excel 5.0 (BIFF5) format which is not fully supported. Nobody has implemented the CODEPAGE record in BIFF5.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-
libreoffice/+bug/262777/comments/10

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On 2011-12-23T20:01:45+00:00 Björn Michaelsen wrote:

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
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Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-
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** Changed in: df-libreoffice
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Bug watch added: openoffice.org/bugzilla/ #95572
   http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95572

** Bug watch added: openoffice.org/bugzilla/ #32785
   http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32785

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Title:
  [upstream] .xls shows non-Russian character encoding for Russian
  characters

Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  Incomplete
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  Confirmed
Status in “gnumeric” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: openoffice.org

  1) lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.04
  Release:	11.04

  2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc
  libreoffice-calc:
    Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
    Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
    Version table:
   *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-proposed/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

  apt-cache policy gnumeric
  gnumeric:
    Installed: 1.10.13-1ubuntu1
    Candidate: 1.10.13-1ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 1.10.13-1ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) What is expected to happen:

  using LibreOffice Calc via the Terminal:
  cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/262777/+attachment/338558/+files/lessons.xls && localc -nologo lessons.xls

  using Gnumeric via the Terminal:
  cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/262777/+attachment/338558/+files/lessons.xls && gnumeric --no-splash lessons.xls

  it displays the Russian characters correctly.

  4) What happens instead is it does not. For example one has
  "Äèñöèïëèíà" instead of "Дисциплина".

  WORKAROUND: Excel 2003 via WINE shows the correct characters.

  Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (11.5612.6505)

  apt-cache policy wine1.3
  wine1.3:
    Installed: 1.3.19-0ubuntu1~maverick1~ppa1
    Candidate: 1.3.19-0ubuntu1~maverick1~ppa1
    Version table:
   *** 1.3.19-0ubuntu1~maverick1~ppa1 0
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1.3.15-0ubuntu5 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Aug 29 22:24:57 2008
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: openoffice.org
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic x86_64

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