[SOLVED] PCBNew cannot edit rotated text

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I noticed another odd behavior yesterday, trying to edit a rotated text is not possible, the text needs have rotation 0 to be editable.

This works:
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This doesn’t:
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Application: Pcbnew
Version: (5.1.5)-3, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.1.1) nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.71.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.66.0
Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON

Cheers!

Bug report:
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/3873

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I remembered I have rotated text and edited it.
Checked - I have no problem with edition (5.1.5)-3 Windows 7.
Text in the same direction as on your picture.

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Thanks Piotr, I haven’t had this problem before actually, but since a month I am in a new laptop with Win10, before I was on Win7, maybe it is a OS problem, didn’t expect to be differences between the Windowzes

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Well I found out the problem after working out another bug , the Interactive HTML BOM tool by qu1ck (excelent plug-in btw) , somehow changes the LOCALE of the computer, when trying to edit a rotated text, the rotation changes from 90.0 to 90,0 (or whatever) and KiCAD doen’t like it if the language is English. I hope this helps someone.

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