Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 21640
Some fonts cheat with soft hyphens
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:35:01 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.
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.
Created attachment 10669 [details] Sample document and supporting .ttf font zip package
HDU->FME: problem caused Writer treating U+00AD as special character. Has EditEngine the same problem?
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utomo > HDU & FME: is this enhancement or defect ? I think it is defect
This defect still outstanding in OO2.0 beta. Please change milestone to OO2.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".