[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 108185] Cells become corrupted (ineditable)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108185

--- Comment #7 from Kevin <timbacontent at gmail.com> ---

> But I guess this is the same root issue as your bug 108041, right?

I'm not an engineer, but I think the root issues are that: 

1. whatever internal header or xml data or whatever the UI looks at to know
what the font and font attributes  gets set to some form that makes the UI
display false information

2. however the code is written for the formatting commands, it fails to see
that the format is wrong and fails to clear it and rewrite it properly

Based on a comment from someone who is an engineer I tried to view the XML but
was unable to do so. If I could see that, I could try each command and see how
the UI writes the internal XML (I only say XML because that term was used in
the comment). If I could see what happens to that when the bug occurs I might
be able to come up with steps to cause the problem without having to use data
from the imported Excel file. But to repeat, being able to smoothly handle
Excel files has got to be right at the top of the list of things this program
needs to do, right?

I looked up XML and found this:

<font face = 'Tahoma' size = '19' hatch = 'largecheckerboard, white,
red'>TAHOMA FONT</font>

I'm guessing that Calc is storing something like that for each character,
right? And I'm guessing that one part of the UI writes this with bad syntax and
the other part of the program doesn't know how to read it so it does nothing or
shows the user the wrong info.

What I'm saying is that all this bugs are really happening - over and over -
and they're not "trivial" - they're crippling.

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