[Solved] Strange characters when opening a .txt file

[mhkiegmann]

When I open the tutorial file (prax-en.txt) there are strange characters in the file. I've been unable to resolve this and I'm hoping someone can help.

[Zizi64]

How you adjusted the import filter at opening the .txt file?

The file (downloaded from the link below) works fine for me with my default import filter parameters:
Character set: Eastern Europe (Windows-1250)
Default font: Times New Roman
Language: Hungarian.


http://openoffice-uni.org/
(English - TXT)

[RoryOF]

Opened OK for me with Char set UK, Times New Roman and English-UK in Writer 4.1.2. Also OK in Mousepad (system plain text editor)

The only thing I could see, scanning through the file, that might cause any strangeness, was use of some non-breaking spaces.

Edit: I suggest mhkiegmann should try the download in PDF or in ODT formats. ODT is an archive with integral corruption checking; if the download is bad for some reason it will complain when you try to open it.

[esperantisto]

Character set: Eastern Europe (Windows-1250)

Should be UTF-8 actually, as selecting cp-1250 really produces strange characters such as:

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Paragraph Style “Text Body”

[mhkiegmann]

Thanks for the replies! It looks like the utf8 removes all the junk for me in the us.