fromWkt should accept any whitespace

[qgib]

Author Name: Mike Taves (Mike Taves)
Original Redmine Issue: 16217
Affected QGIS version: 2.18.3
Redmine category:unknown

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This bug was "discovered with the QuickWKT plug-in":https://github.com/elpaso/quickwkt/blob/master/QuickWKT.py#L240 with copy/paste from Excel, which uses tabs delimiters when pasting into a text window. For example, "POINT (180398 5459331)", where the whitespace in between the two values is a tab character, is considered by the QGIS WKT parser as invalid (it is not).

From a QGIS Python console:

1. With space, there are no problems
geom = QgsGeometry.fromWkt("POINT (180398 5459331)")
print(geom is not None)  # True
1. With tab, it does not read the WKT
geom = QgsGeometry.fromWkt("POINT (180398\\t5459331)")
print(geom is not None)  # False

Most other WKT parsers (PostGIS, GEOS, etc.) are more relaxed, and handle any whitespace without issue

(E.g. "SELECT ST_AsEWKT(E'SRID = 123;

POINT
(1\t
3)'::geometry);" works)

[qgib]

Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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Fixed in changeset "5bbdb1f1c3d07391040b11e7be3b08fe8def0d4c".

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

[qgib]

Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• category_id was configured as Unknown