[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 122196] Weird %Ux.... character handling in starmath editor. Sometimes interpreted, sometimes not.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122196

--- Comment #5 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> ---
The regular way to use an own symbol is to add it to a symbol set. This
information is stored into the registrymodifications.xcu file in the user
profile.

To make sure the symbol is available to other readers of the document, the
symbol is stored into the settings.xml in the math-object in the document. But
symbol sets are only relevant for StarMath. From point of ODF, StarMath does no
exist. MS Word would not be able to use this information for example. 

If you use the %-notation without having the symbol included into a symbol set,
how should LibreOffice know, which symbol it is?

While LibreOffice is running, it holds the symbol sets of the formulas it has
already shown. That makes it possible to use a symbol, which is defined in an
already existing formula but not in your user profile. That is a useful
feature, because users can easily use symbols defined by other authors and can
edit the formulas in foreign documents.

I think, that there is no bug in the current behavior. Only the symbol set UI
is confusing, that it does not distinguish between the different origins of the
available symbols.

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