[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 118007] New: CSV-like files backslash escapes are imported technically correct, but unworkable - a "accept backslash as an escape" option would be nice.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118007

            Bug ID: 118007
           Summary: CSV-like files backslash escapes are imported
                    technically correct, but unworkable - a "accept
                    backslash as an escape" option would be nice.
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 4.3.3.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: eknagy at omikk.bme.hu

Description:
Some programs (e.g. MySQL) escape double quotes with backslashes, ignoring RFC
4180 2/7.
Libreoffice import is working technically correctly on these files, but the
result is "broken" for a layman who exports "CSV" and then imports "CSV".
An option to enable backslash-escaped double quotes (simply replace all
backslash+double quote with double quote+double quote?) would be verynice.

Steps to Reproduce:
Import this CSV-like file as CSV:
"test1","OK"
"test2","Kinda \" OK"
"test3","Problematic \""
"test4","behaviour"

Actual Results:  
Three lines imported, line 3 has 3 fields.

Expected Results:
Four lines imported, all lines have 2 fields.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.62 Safari/537.36

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