save as html destoys quotes when viewd in browser

Guest

Hi,

my open office-created docs, when saved as html, render single and double quotes as very weird looking characters. I thought this may be something like microsoft's smart quote issue, but I can't find any feature in OO writer to disable smart quotes, if it even is available.

however, when a local html file is opened "as file..." in mozila/phoenix the quotes look fine! What gives?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

kilolima

The Liquidator · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 3:55 pm Post subject:

Hi

When you say they look odd, is this in IE?

If so, I wonder whether this is a java issue, as OOo, Mozilla and Phoenix use the real (Sun) version, whereas IE uses it's own which, I understand, is an older version adapted by MS.

Might be wrong but seems to me to be a possible cause.

ftack · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:53 am Post subject:

I can't reproduce this problem. OOo exports double quotes as “ and ” and these render properly in Mozilla.

Guest · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject:

It looks odd in every browser (phoenix, mozilla, IE) and every machine (linux, win nt) I run it on. OO is converting single quotes to ’
and double quotes to ’ and “

I wonder if this ties into the lack of fonts on my machine? Does oo try to export with the same fonts the document was made with? is there some way to tell it use default? Even under courier this is screwed up.

Also, the original document was made with OO for windows, but a test case made under linux (the OO that ships with redhat Cool

also gets garbled.

however, opening the pure html after convert in a text editor reveals that the quotes are there as just themselves, not as weird charcaters or codes like &ldquo, etc. But a view source in a browser shows the weird charcaters. Is apache doing something here??

I don't believe I have java installed.

thanks

kilolima