This bug report was first reported here: http://libreofficechina.org/thread-151-1-1.html When you input "δ=5" in a cell, it automically changes to "Δ=5". Other greek letter are also affected. This may be because of the "Capitalize first letter of every sentence" auto correction option, as "Δ" is the Capitalized form of "δ". When disable this option, it works as expected. When checking the "Capitalize first letter of every sentence" option, libreoffice should ignore the special chars (like greek letters). Windows XP SP3. LibreOffice 4.3.0.2. The original bug reporter also reproduce on Fedora 20 x86_64 LibreOffice 4.2.5.2.
Reproduce in Fedora 20 x86_64 Version: 4.3.0.1 Build ID: 9ed0c4329cf13f882dab0ee8b9ecd7b05e4aafbb
There is nothing 'special' about Greek letters.
Hi Urmas, Nowdays greek letters are mostly used for scientific calculation. Upper case greek letters in most cases have exact a very different meaning compared with a lower case greek letter. Please reference to this wiki page to see how it is different for "δ" and "Δ": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_%28letter%29 Thus, I set this back to UNCONFIRMED, and added "NeedDevEval" to Whiteboard.
reproducible in LibO 4.2.5.2 (but I suspect it has always been like that because of auto-correct collision) under WinXP 32bit as well. status NEW.
Greek is a language with their own alphabet at least like any other, without doubt more, so seems fine to me the option working with it, respecting the people using it, why must it work different?. IMHO not a bug, it could be a request for enhancement, of course with a new option to modify the behavior, but without change the actual option.
The point is, in calc you are not able to input "δ=5" or "σ=5" etc. When type in these expressions and hit ENTER, they are auto-corrected as "Δ=5" and "Σ=5", and there is no way to bring it back. Disable auto-correction can provent it, but it's just a workaround. Anyway, "δ=5" or "σ=5" are not "sentences", so why calc is auto-correcting them? The option "Capitalize first letter of every sentence" as itself tells, it to correct SENTENCE.
(In reply to comment #5) > Greek is a language with their own alphabet at least like any other, without > doubt more, so seems fine to me the option working with it, respecting the > people using it, why must it work different?. please note that this "δ=5" is mathematical language using greek symbols so this issue is not only about the greek users of Calc but may affect all scientific users all around the world (In reply to comment #6) > ... > Anyway, "δ=5" or "σ=5" are not "sentences", so why calc is auto-correcting > them? The option "Capitalize first letter of every sentence" as itself > tells, it to correct SENTENCE. good point Kevin. the code should be tweaked to recognize if a greek letter is at the begin of a sentence like in "αβγδ --> Aβγδ" or a formula "δ=5" and do no case change in this corner case
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still present in LibO 5.1.0.0.alpha1+ (x64) Build ID: 5a61d7f049a81d6e747d9d097f364ae45f58697b TinderBox: Win-x86_64@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-07-16_01:06:26 Locale: en-US (it_IT) I add Lazlo Nemeth on CC list. he's a wizard with autocorrect code. maybe he knows how to tweak it.
Isn't this a DUP of bug 59666 ?
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #10) Yes it is. Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 59666 ***