Sorry for the long delay since my last message.

Those of you who have added the extras-devel repository in their application manager will most likely have noticed that i uploaded Gnumeric 1.8.1 last week. Unfortunately this release fixes none of the known bugs.

The project on garage also was approved, you can find it under:

http://garage.maemo.org/projects/gnumeric/

It would be nice if you could report all known bugs to the bugtracker in the garage project because they are easier to track them there than in this forum thread.

Well, after my researching i believe that these problems are caused by bug #752 in OS2008. Unfortunately i do not know how to workaround this currently.

For those who want a lot more details:

Gnumeric wants to convert the encoding of MS Execel files from Codepage 1252 to UTF-8 in

gnumeric-1.8.1/plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c, function gnm_xl_importer_set_codepage()
(calls gsf_msole_iconv_open_for_import (codepage),

This function is part of libgsf (libgsf-1.14.7/gsf/gsf-msole-utils.c, function gsf_msole_iconv_open_for_import())

(calls gsf_msole_iconv_open_codepage_for_import()),

which is part of glib (calls g_iconv_open()) which calls iconv_open() from libc6 and this icon_open()-calls fail.

So anyone who has and idea how to workaround this, please speak now!