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                 Issue #|71997
                 Summary|Html or text import of numbers
               Component|Spreadsheet
                 Version|OOo 2.0.4
                Platform|Macintosh
                     URL|http://morningstar.com
              OS/Version|All
                  Status|UNCONFIRMED
       Status whiteboard|
                Keywords|
              Resolution|
              Issue type|FEATURE
                Priority|P5
            Subcomponent|open-import
             Assigned to|spreadsheet
             Reported by|j2006





------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 26 10:37:32 -0800 
2006 -------
Starting with OOo 2.0.4 the Calc HTML numbers import has been changed. I
understand the reason but it does not make sense to me to put the manual switch
to use the Anglo-American style or the other in the general preferences. You
always should have the option at least on import or per link you add. The
Preferences are only useful to change the default behaviour to be different from
your locale (usually not very usefull) and will always be wrong in a number of
remaining cases, especially when you live outside the English speaking world.

In my case it breaks my spreadsheet with fund quotes since banks do not seem to
agree on one way of providing quotes. Morningstar uses American style, also for
local sites, while local banks, especially in local languages often use the
other format. Morningstar does not list all quotes there are, so it always fails
for me while it used to work until 2.0.4.
Also, the preferences are not the first place I look, the calc preferences are
not even there when OOo starts up with Writer. So it did take me a while to
figure out that this was not a bug but a feature ;-)
I will always have a few broken links this way or I will have to continue to
script quote downloads, for everything that is in the other than default format
or behind https.

Examples:
http://triodos.nl/nl/personal_banking/investments/returns/?lang=
This a localized site and some quotes are not on the .nl morningstar:
http://www.morningstar.nl/quickrank/default.aspx?lang=NL

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