Re: Some problems related to internationalization

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:50:04PM +0900, Etsushi Kato wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:52:53AM -0700,
> "Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow math concordia ab ca> wrote:
>
> > > I tried it and then Gnumeric said,
> > >
> > >          Invalid expression
> > > "Edit Expression" "Discard Expression"
> > >
> > > It seems gnumeric couldn't understand expression with Japanese EUC
> > > character code.
> > I guess it must be a parser problem. (I was afraid it was something I 
> > broke in the analysis tools.)
>
> I found interesting behavior.  I made a workbook having two sheets 
> (named Sheet1 and Sheet2) and Sheet2 had a cell with the expression
> referring a cell in Sheet1 (like =Sheet1!A1).  Then I changed the name
> of Sheet1 to Japanese name.  Then, it appeared that expression in the 
> cell in Sheet2 referring to Sheet1 (now it is Japanese) follows and
> had Japanese sheet name in expression, and the referring value was
> correct.
>
> Thus it seems expressions with Japanese sheet name are working without
> problem.
> So I think validation of expression when entering expression is too
> strict for Japanese character.  Is it easy to change this in gnumeric
> source code?  But I'm not good at C...

Changing the name of a sheet is an end run around the issue.  It
means that we can display multi-byte characters, but I strongly
doubt we can edit them.  That is going to be one of the main goal
for the 2.0 development tree.