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title="UNCONFIRMED - Calc randomly changes the encoding of "inverted commas" aka "quotation marks""
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143734">143734</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Calc randomly changes the encoding of "inverted commas" aka "quotation marks"
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>7.0.6.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Calc
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>nafik76032@ncstorms.com
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<pre>Description:
Calc in LibreOffice version 7.0.6.2 on Ubuntu 20.10. UK keyboard and locale.
Symptom:
This is a text-entry or saving problem.
I save some commands for my Linux server in a spreadsheet which contains the "
character on most lines. Bizarrely, random lines will have only the opening "
changed to a different encoding of " which looks like this: “ (curlier but not
set to italic). It can sometimes be re-entered correctly and then changes
again upon saving.
Use case and effect:
This broke a lot of my recovery scripts (when I paste into terminal with
Shift+Ctrl+v) and led me on a merry goose chase including reinstalling my OS
because I thought rsync was broken because it just gave a nondescript > prompt.
I also worried I might be hacked. I recovered my system from live USB. It
took an eagle eye to see this imperceptible change in a wall of code.
Many sysadmins keep short scripts in a spreadsheet. This happens for a couple
of years now and I never figured out what was going on.
Corollary:
I have also had problems in Geany where _ underscores went missing and that
made debugging my mail server a nightmare. I don't know if the two are
related, but these past couple of years I have seen more occurrences of text
entry getting mangled by programs. This email is disposable so will only check
messages within bugzilla. That bug has a workaround of changing the default
font.
Thank you for all your great efforts in making this software. Filed with the
intention to help.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a calc sheet with a one-liner rsync script for example containing an
opening and closing "" e.g. for a directory that has to escape spaces in the
path.
2. Save the file.
3. Reopen the file and try copying and pasting the cell with the script. Edit
it for a new path and then edit another cell. Witness the opening " change in
the original.
Actual Results:
Random lines will have the opening " change to curly “ which breaks a shell
when you try to paste and run the script.
Expected Results:
My " should stay as " and not be changed to “.
Reproducible: Sometimes
User Profile Reset: No
OpenGL enabled: Yes
Additional Info:
Please fix this. Posted in detail in case someone else faced this totally
random behaviour and scratched their head for hours.
Version: 7.0.6.2
Build ID: 00(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.0.6-0ubuntu0.20.10.1
Calc: threaded</pre>
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