Bug 40497 - User-defined cell format in Calc was particularly broken
Summary: User-defined cell format in Calc was particularly broken
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
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3.3.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2011-08-30 10:58 UTC by russianneuromancer
Modified: 2016-04-25 07:47 UTC (History)
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Description russianneuromancer 2011-08-30 10:58:41 UTC
1. Open LibreOffice Calc.
2. Enter for example 1600 in any cell.
3. Open Cell Format of this cell.
4. Select user-defined and Default - English (USA) language.
5. Enter format code:
# ###.00 "something"
Result is correct: 1 600. something
6. So now try language with "," instead of ".". For example Russian.
Select Russian language in Cell Format window.
7. Enter format code:
# ###,00 "something"
Result is broken: 1,60something
8. You may guess the problem in the gap, but:
# ###,00"something"
Result is still broken: 1 600,00something
9. Some kind of solution:
# ###,00" something"
Result: 1 600,00 something
Now it's correct but it's just a workaround.
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:39:19 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
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Comment 2 russianneuromancer 2012-02-29 11:25:38 UTC
Bug still present in LibreOffice 3.5 release.
Comment 3 ign_christian 2013-06-25 09:32:14 UTC
I think it's spesific to Languange used on that cell, different Languange generates different behavior.
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2015-03-17 00:11:41 UTC
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Comment 5 russianneuromancer 2015-03-17 07:15:20 UTC
Still reproducible in 4.4.1.2.
Comment 6 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2015-03-21 15:13:05 UTC
Nobody confirmed this bug report independently. Set to UNCONFIRMED.

Please, do not set your own bug report to NEW.

Note: 
For me the point 9 is the correct way to do the formatting.
#5 is not correct, it should be 1 600.00something
If you want " something" set " something" in the format descriptor.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 7 russianneuromancer 2015-03-21 17:37:09 UTC
Interesting, I didn't look at this issue from this point of view:
> For me the point 9 is the correct way to do the formatting.
> #5 is not correct, it should be 1 600.00something

You could be right. Can you request opinion of other developers on this issue?
Comment 8 raal 2015-03-21 21:00:13 UTC
Reproducible with Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: e3167924fd28c8b854f23139dbf49f53e6282ef7
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2015-03-17_03:10:47


Setting to new, according to help this should work https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Number_Format_Codes#Text_and_Numbers
Comment 9 tommy27 2016-04-16 07:28:23 UTC
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Comment 10 russianneuromancer 2016-04-16 11:31:39 UTC
Version 5.1.2.2, still broken. Result on step seven now is: .02something
I have no idea where ".02" came from while number in field is 1600.
Comment 11 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2016-04-17 09:19:51 UTC
For me it is not a bug. You should think that each character in a format description has a meaning, even an empty or blank character. So the correct syntax for the expected result is the point 9.
Point 8 is correct too but it intended to obtain another result.
Point 7 define two places for the thousand separator. 

I suggest to close this bug report as NotABug.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 12 russianneuromancer 2016-04-17 12:23:23 UTC
Jean-Baptiste, what do you get in latest LO with Default - English (USA) and this format: 
# ###.00 "something"
If number in cell is 1600?
Comment 13 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2016-04-17 12:34:43 UTC
(In reply to russianneuromancer from comment #12)
> Jean-Baptiste, what do you get in latest LO with Default - English (USA) and
> this format: 
> # ###.00 "something"
> If number in cell is 1600?

I get:
1 600.00 something

Note: in the various kinds of formatting for English (USA), the thousand separator is the comma, not the space.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 14 Laurent Balland 2016-04-25 07:47:10 UTC
(In reply to russianneuromancer from comment #12)
> Jean-Baptiste, what do you get in latest LO with Default - English (USA) and
> this format: 
> # ###.00 "something"
> If number in cell is 1600?

I agree with Jean-Baptiste, there is no bug.

With EN, space has no special meaning, (it is comma which is considered as thousand separator) so
# ###.00 "something"
will insert two space characters in the result, but no thousand separator. You can check with a huge value bigger than 1 million: 1,243,456 gives
1234 567.00 something

But if you use a language which considers space as thousand separator (like RU or FR), then LibO considers the two spaces as million and thousand separator, and simply ignores second one if value is less than one million.
# ###,00 "something"
gives for 1,243,456
1 234,57something
which can be read as 1,234.57 thousands
As said by Jean-Baptiste, or in your comment 0 step 9, you have to insert your second space character inside your quotes (it is not a workaround, it is as it has to be written):
# ###,00" something"
Otherwise, LibO can not guess if you insert a thousand separator or text space character.

Conclusion: when you change language, you have to adapt both decimal and thousand separators.