If you can change the keyboard/screen font to your required country/language, & your data shows in that language, then use the 'Save as' menu option to create another version of your document/spreadsheet, which should then have the characters of the language you were using, in the new saved copy.

I 'deserted' a while back to Vuu-Do, Mr GreenJeans & I seem to like the same simple system.

(But you started the ball rolling with Openbox. )

Thanks for confirming my thoughts, & welcome to Devuan.

Devuan is an operating system, & this forum is for those who use it, the fact that it is systemd free is why we are here.

If you can't make up your own mind about systemd, that's not a suitable subject matter to be discussed here, It's like talking about Microsoft, & of no relevance at all.

OpenBSD is more for the user who likes a WM rather than a DE, if I remember they have TWM or CWM as their base WM, perfectly usable, but I always use my standard WM (Fluxbox) when I use it.

With only 1gb ram in a Pi3, Firefox will run, but is slow, depending on websites you visit, it may be worth trying Dillo, but it is a bit quirky to use.

Many thanks for the update.

Linux is/was a good OS, but certain interests are contaminating it, taking away our freedom to use it how we want to, & this goes against the unix principle freedoms that it is/was based on. I keep my hand in with BSD, just in case.

Well, Debian software is behind mainstream distros anyway, Devuan will be on a par with Debian in the next release.
It just took time to purge the system, initially, of the entangled systemd.

Systemd is proposed to work like MS Registry, controlling most things from one encrypted file - totally against unix & linux principles.

I've used both tools & they work well under their respective systems, I don't know if they work across systems, but they are both quite easy to use.
As stated above, check out what is being excluded before running them.
If I remember right, you have a choice of creating a generic system or one with your personalised settings.

No one seems to know what went wrong, so I re installed my old O/S (AntiX) to my 'damaged' machine, & set everything up again, so I'm over this particular episode of YT tantrum.

Does it show up in dmesg when you plug it in?

dmesg | tail

Have you tried changing your 'soundcard' in alsamixer, (some mics come up as a soundcard).

Are you using a software audio program, if so, check it is using the right 'input'.
(I usually use audacity.)