Re: [native-lang] Re: [dansk] Re: separator issue solution

Charles-H.Schulz skrev:

> this is how I see the situation. Several builds are affected by this
> separator issues. But others are not. Applying your patch to all the
> builds (i.e to the core) will break not just compatibility with former
> SO 5.2 documents, but also with existing ones: every user for whom 1,000
> = 1000 will in turn have a new critical issue. 

Actually, that is not correct. en_US alike users would not be affected.

This is not more
> acceptable than your own situation. This is why we can work this out in
> two ways:
> 1° since the affected builds are not localized by Sun , we can include
> your patch on them, which would of course require the maintaining of two
> build trees for Pavel :-( (nonetheless we can try to find more
> ressources)

Actually, that is not correct either. Sun localised builds are also 
affected by the bug causing 1.000 = 1: de_DE (German), es_ES (Spanish), 
it_IT (Italian), pt_BR (Portuguese).

> 2° accept the workaround Stefan proposes as a *temporary* solution and
> then find a solution that wouldn't affect anybody in its outcome in
> regard of the locale default, the locale setting, etc.

With a few adjustments the proposed temporary solution could be an 
acceptable permanent solution for (1) users in locales where 1.000 = 
1000, (2) for existing users that wants to circumvent the locale setting 
and force Calc to recognise pasted content as English number despite 
using a non en_US locale, (3) for users that already migrated from 
Quattro Pro and Excel and (4) for the many, many users that will be 
migrating from Quattro Pro and Excel when OOo 2.0 and SO 8 is out.

I have outlined my suggested adjustment in 
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=50670

What do you think about that compromise?

Søren