https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82418
--- Comment #2 from Tom <[email protected]> --- Thanks penttila, it could be a recent change to the default value. Hope someone else can also confirm this, and I will try to get hold of a PC running Windows to see what is the current behaviour of text import. I appreciate that there is the field preview and personally I am quite okay with that. However, the problem I see here is twofold: 1. Usability / (fresh) user experience 2. No sanity check on imported data Usability - don't get me wrong - the text import in LO is a really powerful and useful tool, and I am glad we have it. However, I believe that less savvy users just want to click 'OK' and have the spreadsheet popping up so they can work on it. Both you and me are familiar with the interface, and we know that if text looks corrupted, it could be the encoding issue. But, many fresh or less savvy users will either think that the file is corrupted, there is a problem with Calc/Writer/LO, or worst case: they may just okay the dialogue without paying much attention to the preview. And as a result it will freeze the whole application, there is no way to abort the import, there is no progress bar, there is no warning that something is not quite right. The second issue here is more serious, importing text data, even with incorrect encoding should never cause the software to hang or crash. LO attempted to cramp the small file into a single cell. I guess the reason for the freeze is because when you try to open the large file LO is trying to do just that, import 129k 2-byte characters into a single cell. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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