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Asked: 2026-06-16T21:09:15+00:00

I have a problem when opening a HTML table in OpenOffice or LibreOffice if

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I have a problem when opening a HTML table in OpenOffice or LibreOffice if it contains UTF8 extended characters like ÅÄÖåäö.

When opening the table into M$ Excel it works as intended but I can’t make OO do the same thing.

By converting all extended characters to its HTML entity eqivalent Å etc. it works but it would be nice to get the correct characters directly.

Is there anyone who knows what I should do?

The following content I have in a file called excelsample.xls and if I open that with OO Calc it will not look nice.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/vnd.ms-excel" charset="UTF-8">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td>Prawn sandwich</td><td>Räksmörgås</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Your meta tag is malformed and OO doesn’t probably recognize the html5 charset tag.

    So fix it with:

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=UTF-8">
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