GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 624289
expr entry widget confused by multibyte characters
Last modified: 2010-07-14 06:06:59 UTC
define a name ööööööööööö to represent A1 through edit->modify->names select A2 type =sum(öööööööööö, range selection should now be possible but isn't. The code uses gtk_editable_get_position as if it returns a byte position, when in fact it returns a character position.
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
apparently git ate my changes