Although this may seem consistent with remove( int, int ), it is in fact rather misleading API. The biggest offender is most probably buffer.remove( 'a' ) , which definitely does not do what it suggests to do. Change-Id: I287619cd4b953228b93fa68fb381d66c344c3865 Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/1256 Reviewed-by: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> Tested-by: Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com>