Bug 139588 - API: textRegion.CharLocale uses changed type Variant/Empty to signal mixed languages. Should return .Language = "und" or similar.
Summary: API: textRegion.CharLocale uses changed type Variant/Empty to signal mixed la...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: BASIC (show other bugs)
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3.3.0 release
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2021-01-13 14:23 UTC by Wolfgang Jäger
Modified: 2023-12-03 03:14 UTC (History)
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The announced example. (19.70 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2021-01-13 14:23 UTC, Wolfgang Jäger
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Description Wolfgang Jäger 2021-01-13 14:23:38 UTC
Created attachment 168855 [details]
The announced example.

Testing by user code for the locale of a given text region is complicated by the fact that the Object property (structure) textRegion.CharLocale is replaced by a property of type Variant/Empty if no unambiguous result is found (multiple language e.g.). 

Bad idea. 

ISO 639 offers "und" or "mul" as values for .Language in the respective cases.

The attached example contains code for the demonstration of the issue, and for the unnecessary complications it may cause when user code needs to evaluate the locale related properties of text. The code also demonstrates a workaround.

If old code needs to be protected, a property .CharLocale2 might help.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2021-12-02 12:45:23 UTC
Let's set to NEW
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2023-12-03 03:14:13 UTC
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