After reading in this article, I was able to change the rendering.
I am calling an internal function:
renderer: this.onRenderCell
And this function is as follows:
onRenderCell: function(value, metaData, record, rowIndex, colIndex, store, view) { metaData.css = 'ini-cell-pas-traduit'; return '«'+value+'»'; }
If you read carefully, I return '«'+value+'»'; , so for the value of each it is converted to: ' & laquo; value & raquo; ';, This is proof that it works perfectly on every single line. So it should be for css. But css is applied once in two! It drives me crazy.
Here's what it gives (the latest Firefox, the same with the latest Chrome):

Any idea where I should look?
Here is a great example of my source code:
Ext.define('Lang.grid.Panel', { extend: 'Ext.grid.Panel', alias: 'widget.langgrid', requires: [ 'Ext.grid.plugin.CellEditing', 'Ext.form.field.Text', 'Ext.toolbar.TextItem' ], initComponent: function(){ this.editing = Ext.create('Ext.grid.plugin.CellEditing'); Ext.apply(this, { iconCls: 'icon-grid', plugins: [this.editing], dockedItems: [{ xtype: 'toolbar', items: [{ iconCls: 'icon-add', text: 'Add', scope: this, handler: this.onAddClick }, { iconCls: 'icon-delete', text: 'Delete', disabled: true, itemId: 'delete', scope: this, handler: this.onDeleteClick }] }], columns: [{ text: 'label', flex:2, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'label' },{ header: 'fr', flex: 3, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'fr', renderer: this.onRenderCell, field: { type: 'textfield' } },{ header: 'es', flex: 3, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'es', renderer: this.onRenderCell, field: { type: 'textfield' } },{ header: 'us', flex: 3, sortable: true, dataIndex: 'us', renderer: this.onRenderCell, field: { type: 'textfield' } } ] }); this.callParent(); this.getSelectionModel().on('selectionchange', this.onSelectChange, this); }, (...) (snip useless code) (...) onRenderCell: function(value, metaData, record, rowIndex, colIndex, store, view) { metaData.css = 'ini-cell-pas-traduit'; return '<span style="color:red; font-weight:bold;">«'+ value+'»</span>'; } });