Description: the formula bar doesn't support the unicode symbols × ÷ ² (pivoted version of number, not fx ^2) used for calculations. Steps to Reproduce: 1. open either writer or calc 2. open a formula bar(an = in a cell in calc or by pressing F2 in writer) 3. use × or ÷ or ³ or ² in any calculaion Actual Results: **expession is faulty** error message in writer Err:501 in calc Expected Results: that the equation would be calculated Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 7.6.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 56f7684011345957bbf33a7ee678afaf4d2ba333 CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-DK (en_DK.UTF-8); UI: en-US Flatpak Calc: threaded
Unrelated to "formula bar" (in Calc it's the Input Line btw and Writer is completely different anyway) or not, these Unicode math signs and superscript digits are not accepted in formula expressions. I also don't see a compelling reason to do so. Next step someone would be complaining about =3² not being accepted and resulting in 9, or square/cube/fourth root characters, and so on. And then all the 50 MATHEMATICAL * DIGIT * characters. In any case, such characters would not be preserved after input once tokenized and transformed to operators and numbers, least when storing to file because the formula standard does not allow them.
Let's close.