GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 129702
Improperly encoded author name stored to xml
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
A user was unable to open files stored by gnumeric 1.2.1 in gnumeric native format. http://bugs.debian.org/224482. It turned out that the author field of summary contained improperly encoded xml. The author name was taken from the gecos field of the passwd entry with no validation or transcoding.
Created attachment 22580 [details] [review] Proposed fix
We also have to help people who have already made badly formed documents. It's surpising that this hasn't come up before.