Re: Strange 0.75 text entry bug

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow math concordia ab ca>]

David Megginson wrote:

>Gnumeric is performing strange case conversions on strings I type into
>cells (whether the format is "general" or "text").
>
>When I try to type "kCLge" into a blank cell, I end up with "KcLGE".
>When I then edit the cell to try to put the case correct, I get
>"kClge".  No matter how many times I edit, I cannot get to "kCLge";
>similar problems happen for other mixed-case strings.
>
>I don't want to report this to bugzilla until I'm sure I'm not missing
>anything obvious.
>
I can repeat this and it seems to have to do something with the
auto-correct options (Tools->Auto Correct). When I switch all
autocorrect options off it works fine and I am not surprised that they
would get confused by kCLge.

Andreas

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