https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171165

--- Comment #2 from Regina Henschel <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #1)
> This set of functions is just junk from pre-Unicode times. They could
> possibly be useful at some point, when the byte size could mean "these bytes
> will be written to file"; but now, this has no meaning at all (e.g., the
> byte size reported bow is UTF-16, while to most files, UTF-8 is written).

That is a different topic. Perhaps we should add a note to
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Template:Documentation/Calc_Functions/byte_position_function_information,
that these functions are legacy functions and only provided to be able to read
older documents, and newly created documents need not and should not use them.

> 
> I don't think they need documentation - at all. The less we document, the
> easier it would be to change them, if compatibility ever requires.

Excel and Gnumeric produce results that are different from LibreOffice.
Therefore I think we need to document our way.

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