Bug 83497 - Gnumeric can't import MS Excel files in 97/2000 format
Summary: Gnumeric can't import MS Excel files in 97/2000 format
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: gnumeric
Version: phoebe
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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Reported: 2003-02-04 22:09 UTC by M Jang
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-05 02:35:08 UTC
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Description M Jang 2003-02-04 22:09:53 UTC 
Description of problem:

Gnumeric can't open MS Excel 97 files. When opened from the command line, it hangs with the following message:
filename.xls
Excel 97+

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.0.12-1 (also applies to 1.0.12-2 from Rawhide)

How reproducible:

Start Gnumeric. Attempt to open a Microsoft Excel file in 97 or later format.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Gnumeric
2. Open a MS Excel .xls file in 97 or later format
3. 
    
Actual results:

Gnumeric appears to hang with the aforementioned message

Expected results:

Gnumeric should import MS Excel files without problems.

Additional info:

Per Jody Goldberg of GNOME, this may be related to the new glibc
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-02-04 22:15:15 UTC 
duplicate, need to find other one
Comment 2 Jody Goldberg 2003-02-04 23:08:34 UTC 
jrb traced the hang to an iconv_open call.
The sample sheet loads fine on other distros.
Comment 3 Jonathan Blandford 2003-02-05 00:59:15 UTC 
This is apparently a glibc bug.  A fix is apparently in glibc now.
Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2003-02-05 02:35:08 UTC 
just being anal about the resolution...
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