[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-1895) RIGHTB and friendsis incompletely specified

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Andreas Guelzow  commented on OFFICE-1895:
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While I know that "RIGHTB is intended for use with languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS)" appears in various places claiming to document RIGHTB, how does this make sense in the first place. Especially for something with double byte charactes you would want to use a counter that counts characters to avoid addressing the middle of a double byte character.

> RIGHTB and friends is incompletely specified
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFFICE-1895
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-1895
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: OpenFormula
>    Affects Versions: ODF 1.2
>            Reporter: Andreas Guelzow 
>            Assignee: Eric Patterson
>             Fix For: ODF 1.2
>
>
> 6.6.6 RIGHTB
> Summary: Return a selected number of text characters from the right, using byte position.
> This description fails to indicate what happens in the likely situation that the selected bytes do not form a complete character sequence. Should that be an error or move to a correct position?
> Similarly for  the otehr ...B functions

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