[Libreoffice-qa] Calc freeze issues

[suokunlong]

WoW.... Good to see the bug I reported become the pop star.

Kevin Suo

On 2014年02月07日 21:54, Kohei Yoshida-6 [via Document Foundation Mail 
Archive] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> FYI, a large number of Calc freeze problems may be attributed to the
> same root cause, which I fixed for Bug 72470
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72470
>
> The problem code kicks in when you have a document that has at least one
> cell containing mixed script types. Pretty much any action can trigger
> this. Typing a new value into a cell, copy-n-pasting a range of cells,
> changing cell format, inserting cells, sorting, you name it.
>
> But what does mixed script types mean? Internally Calc categorizes text
> language types into 3 script types: latin, asian, and complex. Latin
> covers the western languages such as English, French, German etc, Asian
> covers Chinese, Japanese, Korean (and Vietnamese?), and Complex covers
> Arabic, Hebrew etc. If you see a bug report that claims Calc freezes
> after doing ABC, and it only does in the new 4.2.0 release (or beta and
> RC before that), check the content of the file and see if it has mixed
> script types. If so, it may be caused by the same root cause as the
> above bug. Please re-check those bugs again with the build that
> contains the fix for that bug.
>
> I've browsed through bugzilla last night, and I saw quite a number of
> them that may fit the profile.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kohei





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