Bug 75069

Summary:	Freeze or lock when clearing direct formatting from a URL containing Asian characters
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Daniel Ashton <jdashton>
Component:	Calc	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	miguelangelrv
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.2.0.4 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	macOS (All)
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Description Daniel Ashton 2014-02-16 23:13:38 UTC

I copied some HTML from my PayPal account transaction history, including this value as a link: Details Payment To 鲍 天穗 23383394AY510781J 

This and another cell both containing a link with extended character-set characters each cause LO Calc to freeze (spinning beachball) when I try to Clear Direct Formatting from the context menu or from the main menu or with Ctrl-M.

The actual URL of the link uses normal characters. Similar cells above and below either of these, containing similar links with similar URLs, do not cause the spinning beachball. So I conclude that the Asian characters in the text of the link are causing the problem.

Comment 1 Daniel Ashton 2014-02-16 23:26:42 UTC

The same symptoms result if you try to paste the formatting from an adjacent cell into one of these cells.

Specifically, I used the formula bar to copy the text of the link, then deleted the link from the cell. I then use Edit -> Paste Special to paste the text as unformatted text (not RTF).  I copied one of the other cells (which had had direct formatting cleared from it) and tried to paste only the format into the Asian-text cell. This also caused a spinning-beachball freeze.

Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2014-02-18 01:18:20 UTC

Hi Daniel, thanks for reporting.

Seems a duplicate of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72470

The mentioned bug is resolved in 4.2.1.1, please download and test in:
http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/4.2.1.1/

Please if you can reproduce with 4.2.1.1, reopen the bug, and if possible attach a minimal file for reproduce the issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 72470 ***

Comment 3 Daniel Ashton 2014-02-18 02:45:27 UTC

Confirm that I cannot recreate this behaviour using 4.2.1.1.

However, while mousing around in an unsaved spreadsheet trying to test this bug, I hit a pathological Save behaviour that seemed related to this.  The Save bar at the bottom of the window displayed and seemed to be "saving" repeatedly. While this was happening I could click in some cells, but the cell with the mixed Western and Asian characters would not accept my mouse-click.  I was eventually able to close the window using the Window menu: clicking the Mac OS X red candy close button seemed to have no effect.

Comment 4 m_a_riosv 2014-02-18 03:26:37 UTC

Please Daniel, can you fill a new bug.
I think it happens with a new files, with auto-recovery on, prior the first save of the file. I think it was reported before but I can't find it.

Comment 5 Daniel Ashton 2014-02-19 15:32:39 UTC

That looks similar to #73015
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73015