2014-02-07 14:59 GMT+01:00 Kohei Yoshida <[email protected]>: > 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 >
Kohei, any chance of a patch for Linux (in my specific case, deb) users being posted in the near future, in addition to those you've already posted for Windows and Mac users, respectively ?... Henri
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