Re: Migrating file from the old gnumeric version to the current version

[Morten Welinder <mwelinder gmail com>]

Kernel versions is not the issue.  The problem is that Gnumeric 1.0.x
saved files without encoding.

My copy of gnumeric reads these files file, but I suspect that differences
in libxml2 versions are what is causing you problems.  If we're talking a
small number of files, I can convert them for you.

Before we do that, however, try...

gunzip < my_old.gnumeric | iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t UTF-8 | gzip > my_new.gnumeric

Gnumeric files are compressed xml and the above should do the
conversion on the xml.

Morten