The SYLK / Symbolic Link / Multiplan format has a character limit per cell of 255 characters. It is also encoded in ANSI. LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org seem to ignore these, which is OK when used with them but not when you try to open a LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org-exported SYLK file in Excel or another SYLK app.
My exported SYLK files from LibO and OOo seem to be encoded in Windows-1252. Related: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76602
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This persists in 3.5.0beta2.
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Confirmed this is still the case. Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 5f6bdce0c0ac687f418821ce328f2987bf340cda TinderBox: Win-x86@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-01-17_01:06:46
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