Open office problem

[Bobtheduck]

I just moved my books over to my new laptop, bought in Korea but installed with supposedly English Windows...

Well, when I opened one of my books, every open quote and first letter of the quote has been turned into chinese characters, and about half of my end quotes simply disappeared.

I've looked for this problem on google and haven't found anything on it. I have been going through the open quotes and fixing them, and it's the same chinese character for the same combination of quote and letter, but the missing end quotes are harder to pick up and no way to automatically fix them.

Is there a reason why this would have happened? I got ENGLISH Open Office on what was supposed to be an ENGLISH windows install, too, but there's listings in it for Hanja conversion... Same problem I have with iTunes. It's in "english" and yet random things will show up in Korean on it.

[blkmage]

Is your Windows set to an English locale?

I'm running an English Windows XP on my virtual machine that I use only for playing visual novels. On that install though, I've kept it on Japanese locale, which has the side effect of turning all the backslashes into yen signs and I'm sure there are other goofy things it does.

[Bobtheduck]

I fixed one problem (the chinese characters) by finding a "legacy" version of OO. By legacy, I mean one version back. Of course, now the spell check doesn't work because it didn't come with a dictionary... Oh, and it likes to glitch when I open it for the first time that boot, and lock whatever file I opened with it until I delete the "lock" files, and until those files are deleted, it will proceed to lock every file I open.

[Mithrandir]

Oh, and it likes to glitch when I open it for the first time that boot, and lock whatever file I opened with it until I delete the "lock" files, and until those files are deleted, it will proceed to lock every file I open.

Even after you close the application?

[Bobtheduck]

Even after you close the application?

By every file, I meant every OO file (doc, odt, xml, etc). OO 3.11 was a bust. Not compatible with Win 7. I did discover the problem that caused the Chinese characters, though. OO 3.2 can't handle Word 95 docs. For some reason, about half of my doc files are 95 instead of 97/2000/2003. I'll have to change them on my old laptop and reload them on the new one.

Win 7 is proving a much bigger adjustment than win xp was. It's taking a long time to get it to where I want, and I'm not sure I ever will...