05654: Problems with umlauts/mutated vowels when exporting to latin1 doc file - LimeSurvey bugs, patches and feature requests

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05654

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2012-01-11 12:42

2013-03-17 12:13

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user16048

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normal

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minor

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acknowledged

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suspended

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1.91+

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Summary

05654: Problems with umlauts/mutated vowels when exporting to latin1 doc file

Description

There seems to be something wrong with the export feature that lets you export the results of a survey as "Microsoft Word (latin charset)" if you use mutated vowels (common in the german language).

1. File doesn't look like a .doc file, more like a HTML file
If you open the file (e.g. results-survey28815.doc in the attachments) with an editor you see that the file has no header (and I think normally .doc files have a header). It starts with an HTML style declaration and continues using HTML. So perhaps a .doc wasn't really created but a HTML file that was just renamed to .doc.

2. charset doesn't match
If I open the file with Microsoft Word, Open Office or Libre Office the mutated vowels will be replaced with signs like "Ã¼". Even Notepad++ thinks the file is in UTF-8. If you switsch to latin_1 the same thing happens.

Steps To Reproduce

Create a german survey e.g. with a male/female gender question. Start the survey, take part and the export the results as .doc file.

Additional Information

Attachments:
- results-survey28815.doc: exported doc file
- exportedDOCfileNotepadAsLatin1.jpg: Screenshot, open with Notepad++ chaset latin
- exportedDOCfileNotepadAsUTF8.jpg: Screenshot, open with Notepad++ chaset UTF-8
- exportedDOCfileWord.jpg: Screenshot, open with Microsoft Word

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Attached Files

results-survey28815.doc [^] (3,125 bytes) 2012-01-11 12:42

exportedDOCfileWord.jpg [^] (30,045 bytes) 2012-01-11 12:42

exportedDOCfileNotepadAsLatin1.jpg [^] (215,127 bytes) 2012-01-11 12:43

exportedDOCfileNotepadAsUTF8.jpg [^] (217,118 bytes) 2012-01-11 12:43

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(16898) c_schmitz (administrator) 2012-01-22 17:10	The whole Word export needs to be rewritten. This will be fixed only then.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2012-01-11 12:42	user16048	New Issue
2012-01-11 12:42	user16048	File Added: results-survey28815.doc
2012-01-11 12:42	user16048	File Added: exportedDOCfileWord.jpg
2012-01-11 12:43	user16048	File Added: exportedDOCfileNotepadAsLatin1.jpg
2012-01-11 12:43	user16048	File Added: exportedDOCfileNotepadAsUTF8.jpg
2012-01-11 14:56	Mazi	Assigned To	=> c_schmitz
2012-01-11 14:56	Mazi	Status	new => assigned
2012-01-22 17:10	c_schmitz	Note Added: 16898
2012-01-22 17:10	c_schmitz	Status	assigned => closed
2012-01-22 17:10	c_schmitz	Resolution	open => suspended
2012-09-14 12:32	c_schmitz	Assigned To	c_schmitz =>
2012-09-14 12:32	c_schmitz	Status	closed => acknowledged
2013-03-17 12:13	c_schmitz	Project	Bug reports => Development