This is the B2UConverter project, an UNO extension for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, for converting documents from old encodings to Unicode.
Copyright ©2009 Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam License: GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 Authors: Jean Christophe André <jcandre(at)hanoilug(dot here)org> Lê Quốc Thái <lqthai(at)hanoilug(dot here)org> Võ Đức Phương <vdphuong(at)hanoilug(dot here)org> Hoàng Minh Thắng <hoangminhthang(at)ktqd(dot here)org>
This extension requires the Python-UNO bridge. In Debian/Ubuntu, you have to install the 'python-uno' package. In Windows, you have to tick it in the installation options.
This extension should work with OpenOffice.org 2.2 and later, LibreOffice 3.3 and later, on GNU/Linux, Windows and probably MacOS X too (not tested).
It has been confirmed running on:
WARNING: You have to quit OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice (fully) before (un)installing.
To install, run 'make install' in the current directory.
To uninstall, run 'make uninstall' in the current directory.
To deploy, run 'make clean build' in the current directory. It will create the extension as a file named 'B2UConverter.oxt' which you can install with the help of 'unopkg'. Look into the 'Makefile' for an example of how to do this.