How to save a file in UTF-8 or Unicode charset format?

rhimbo · General User Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

Hi folks,

How can I save a file

I have inherited a Word file containing Japanese text (mixed Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji). I've opened it in OOo writer. I would like to save it in UTF-8. How do I do that?

I believe it was created on Windows and appears to be encoded using CP1252.

Many thanks in advance.

Robert Tucker · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:53 am Post subject:

As far as I know OpenOffice creates and saves documents in UTF-8. If you've opened the document in OpenOffice and all the characters appear OK, I think you should be able to just go ahead and save it. If you need to change the encoding before you open it in OpenOffice that may be more difficult.
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rhimbo · General User Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

Hello Robert,

I can read the Japanese characters just fine. I forced a re-save of the file (after adding some spaces to force a save). I also did a "save as" to produce a new version of the file.

I tried to copy and paste a few lines from each of these files into a file that I was editing using the Eclipse IDE. The paste worked and I can see all the Japanese characters. However, I cannot save the file. I get this error:

Robert Tucker · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:33 am Post subject:

As it says here:

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t373006-cp1252-problem.html

Cp1252 may be the default setting for Eclipse.

File > Properties > Text file encoding >choose UTF-8 or enter it.
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rhimbo · General User Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

Yeah, I forgot to mention that I tried that... still can't save it.

But thanks anyway. I'm going to post to the Eclipse forum. Maybe there is some other configuration that needs setting that I overlooked.

Thanks again....