Issue 21640

Summary:

Some fonts cheat with soft hyphens

Product:

Writer

Reporter:

mhosken <martin_hosken>

Component:

code

Assignee:

AOO issues mailing list <issues>

Status:

CONFIRMED ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

frank.meies, hdu, issues, utomo.prawiro

Version:

OOo 1.1

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 2000

Issue Type:

ENHANCEMENT

Latest Confirmation in:

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Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
Sample document and supporting .ttf font zip package	none

Description mhosken 2003-10-24 06:10:18 UTC

Some fonts used for extended Roman script and non-Roman scripts often 
treat "upper ASCII" (0x80-0xFF) as being 8-bit clean. This is fine for 
OpenOffice except that U+00AD is magic (soft hyphen). Can there be some way to 
disable the action of soft hyphen for a particular character format range 
(since the behaviour is linked to the font being used) and to treat it as a 
normal character that is always displayed from the font being used.

The current behaviour will break many existing Word documents when imported 
since word holds the soft hyphen as a meta character, different from U+00AD.

Comment 1 utomo99 2003-10-27 08:34:52 UTC

Please Attach the documents which make this problem, so we can test
it/faster to confirm.  
(Without the documents, we cannot confirm the problem easily/need more
time)
Don't forget to cut other part of the documents, so the file size is
small, but we still able to see the problem.

Comment 2 mhosken 2003-10-27 09:56:10 UTC

Created attachment 10669 [details]
Sample document and supporting .ttf font zip package

Comment 3 hdu@apache.org 2003-10-27 16:21:23 UTC

HDU->FME: problem caused Writer treating U+00AD as special character. 
Has EditEngine the same problem?

Comment 4 frank.meies 2003-10-28 08:50:14 UTC

Comment 5 utomo99 2003-10-30 11:00:32 UTC

utomo > HDU & FME:
is this enhancement or defect ? I think it is defect

Comment 6 mhosken 2005-03-08 07:24:10 UTC

This defect still outstanding in OO2.0 beta. Please change milestone to OO2.

Comment 7 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:55:41 UTC

To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".