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Never open old Japanese Word files in LibreOffice. It will destroy the file.

This is because old Japanese Word files are saved in Shift JIS, but LibreOffice opens them in UTF-8.

Do you know if there is an issue for that particular problem in their Bugzilla[1]? If not, have you tried opening a new one? Could you share a sample to reproduce? Because I tried to search for "Shift JIS" on Bugzilla and found nothing.

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/

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