Bug 123168 - Trim function should also apply to non-break spaces (U+00A0)
Summary: Trim function should also apply to non-break spaces (U+00A0)
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsDevAdvice
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Blocks: Calc-Function
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Reported: 2019-02-05 04:31 UTC by Elmar
Modified: 2020-04-25 03:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
trim function examples (82.61 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2019-02-05 04:38 UTC, Elmar
Details
Text file (xed) of paste from Thunderbird (310 bytes, text/plain)
2019-02-05 04:40 UTC, Elmar
Details

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Description Elmar 2019-02-05 04:31:46 UTC
Description:
When I copy something from Thunderbird mail client or off an internet page into Calc, this does not work properly unless I first copy it to a text editor and from there to Calc

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select text in source (e.g. Thunderbird)
2. Copy into Calc
3. 

Actual Results:
In many cases (e.g. from a web page) it will not paste using CTL+V but if I use context menu, it does.
When I use a function like Trim to remove spaces, it does not.


Expected Results:
Should find spaces.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: SpreadsheetDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes
Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: ed707a4806a489467c6d9be7d1b787dab94b5f78
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-01-26_22:55:03
Locale: en-GB (en_ZA.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

Same problem in Version 5.4
Comment 1 Elmar 2019-02-05 04:38:30 UTC
Created attachment 148885 [details]
trim function examples

The document includes pasted screen shots and multiple examples
Comment 2 Elmar 2019-02-05 04:40:50 UTC
Created attachment 148886 [details]
Text file (xed) of paste from Thunderbird

The example shows what is pasted into text file.
When pasting from the text file into Calc, the Trim function correctly identifies spaces.
Comment 3 Usama 2019-05-19 15:23:23 UTC
Hello Elmar ,
Thank you for reporting this. I've checked the text copied from Thunderbird using the following service that view non-printable Unicode characters:
https://www.soscisurvey.de/tools/view-chars.php

I see the text copied from Thunderbird have the Unicode Character 'NO-BREAK SPACE' (U+00A0) [1], Which is not recognized as normal space by trim. I also checked the CLEAN which it's supposed to remove non printable characters but it didn't.

Will look at it further later D.V.

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1. U+00A0: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a0/index.htm
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2019-08-18 08:41:24 UTC
I think the issue with CLEAN function falls under bug 97706.
Not sure, if this report should be closed as wontfix in favour of bug 97706
Comment 5 Xisco Faulí 2019-09-26 10:46:41 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #4)
> I think the issue with CLEAN function falls under bug 97706.
> Not sure, if this report should be closed as wontfix in favour of bug 97706

Hi Elmar,
Do you agree with buovjaga's opinion ?
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2020-03-25 02:40:30 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2020-04-25 03:38:33 UTC
Dear Elmar,

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