Hi Alberto, Am So, den 26.10.2003 schrieb Alberto Corbi Bellot um 17:57: > I've notice that openoffice1.1 can work properly with arabic but when i > tell it to open an utf8 plain text file (written,for example, with yudit > or gedit) containing arabic expresions it just prints rubbish... > > is there a way to tell openoffice it should enable uft8 support when > opening plain text files (*.txt) or is it a bug?
When you open the file, choose Text Encoded (*.txt) instead of Text (*.txt) as file type. Before displaying the file, OOo will ask which encoding to use. UTF-8 is in that list. Also, make sure you use a font for arabic text. HTH, Martin