Bug 148749 - FILEOPEN Lotus 123 entity encoding
Summary: FILEOPEN Lotus 123 entity encoding
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.3.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Character
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Reported: 2022-04-23 19:35 UTC by SheetJS
Modified: 2025-08-18 03:11 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Attachments
sample file (3.89 KB, application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3)
2022-05-10 09:37 UTC, Xisco Faulí
Details

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Description SheetJS 2022-04-23 19:35:31 UTC
Description:
Lotus 1-2-3 encodes certain characters like "\r" and "\n".  The general pattern appears to be /\x0F[\x20-\x2F]/, and the encoded character code is understood to be the low 4 bits of the second character.  For example, "\x0F-" maps to "\r" and "\x0F*" maps to "\n"

Steps to Reproduce:
https://github.com/SheetJS/test_files/raw/master/crlf/CRLFR9.123 (download and open)

Actual Results:
Cell B1 is "abc-*def"

Expected Results:
Cell B1 is "abc\r\ndef" (or "abc\ndef" depending on LO newline normalization)


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2022-05-10 09:37:51 UTC
Created attachment 180035 [details]
sample file
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2023-01-09 11:02:33 UTC
Confirmed

Arch Linux 64-bit, X11
Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 8ae84bb5566e12df64236a116b9d1889d6f5f052
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded Jumbo
Built on 9 January 2023
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2025-08-18 03:11:59 UTC
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