Hello, Everyone I believe that I have made an honest attempt at scouring OpenOffice.org (SRC680_m210 Build 1) to find an easy way to set this. Also, I have had no luck finding an answer on this list or any other reasonably locatable location on the Internet. That being the case, here is my problem. I have used the Sword Project's "diatheke" command to output the Bible into plain text files, divided by chapter and book. If (as an example) I open up "01-Genesis.txt" in KDE's KWrite, Genesis 4:22 looks like this (in the screenshots that follow, keep an eye on the name "Tubal–cain"): http://www.afolkey2.net/Projects/Genesis422-ss-001.jpg If I do "Insert | File" from within OpenOffice.org, I get the following: http://www.afolkey2.net/Projects/Genesis422-ss-002.jpg If I open OpenOffice.org and just open the same file referred to in all of these examples, it looks like this: http://www.afolkey2.net/Projects/Genesis422-ss-003.jpg Then, if I copy and paste the sample verse, book, entire Bible, whatever from KWrite (which displays all occurrences of this "hyphen-like" character correctly) into a new OpenOffice.org text document, it looks like this: http://www.afolkey2.net/Projects/Genesis422-ss-004.jpg As you can see, this "hyphen-like character" displays correctly in KWrite. Also, it will display correctly in OpenOffice.org IF I copy and paste it from a non-OpenOffice.org application. The verse also correctly displays in gedit. BUT, if I display the same file using abiword, vi, emacs or less, it does not display correctly. In "Tools | Encoding" in KWrite, I have it set to "utf8" So I guess the question is, "What SHOULD my default encoding be set to, and how and where do I set it so that it is respected by all applications?" My system is Fedora Core 6, and my Desktop Environment is KDE (Branch 3.5 compiled from SVN) I wanted to get this off now to give all of you brilliant Ladies & Gentlemen an opportunity to contemplate my issue. In the meantime, I uninstalled the OpenOffice.org that I was running, and I am now downloading and installing the most recent FC6 version of OpenOffice. That should make sure that the playing field is level :) But, this issue is not confined to OpenOffice.org, as stated above. So, this is "probably" either a Fedora Core 6 issue, or an issue with my system.... If you need any more information, please let me know. Steven P. Ulrick -- 20:50:35 up 3 days, 2:51, 0 users, load average: 1.04, 1.13, 0.84
