Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 97248
Unicode spaces (Hex: 2000-200A) are not treated as spaces
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:17:44 UTC
Spaces in the Unicode range 2000-200A (hex) are not treated as spaces by OOo Writer. This becomes apparent when the space is at a line end, where it does not disappear like a normal space, or when a curly quotation mark is inserted after the space, the quotation mark will curl in the wrong direction. I have tested this in OOo 3.0.0 on Windows Vista and OOo 2.4.1 on Ubuntu Linux 8.04.
Please attach a sample document. @HDU: any idea?
Yes, I agree that the Writer engine should treat U+200x as spaces.
Created attachment 61505 [details] Sample document
This is very visible with RTF import of Word created document containing impit fields (word often writes empty field value as \u8194\'20\u8194\'20\u8194\'20\u8194\'20\u8194\'20 that is five 2002 spaces. Quite common case, very ugly in OOo.
setting target. OD->MRU: Any input from your side on this issue?
This problem does not arise this commonly. I would even tend to say that this is "Enhancement" request...
As I comment already, this is pretty common case, when working with MSWord- created forms saved to RTF. Word writes empty fields as 5 U+2002 spaces. OOo shows that as 5 boxes which looks realy badly. Atleast 2 organizations I know of, stopped using OOo because of that. Of course, this could be solved by tweaking rtf import filter converting Unicode spaces to normal spaces (I think .doc import do something like that).
Beside matching the mentioned Unicode range to spaces, what about "the correct ones"? They all do differ in width and more-often-than-not, spaces are used to format documents. "No squares" is cool, but "spaces with the correct width" would be even better. To get this working in OOo on all systems, the OpenSymbol font coming along with OOo must have them included because too many fonts on too many systems do not. I wrote issue 107419 (Add characters to OpenSymbol font (spaces, dashes, formatting characters). SBA-> Xaliger: Please note that the threat "XYZ stays with MS Office because of this issue" is neither new nor effective. We recently celebrated 100 Million downloads of OOo Version 3 although this very issue exists. :-) Note that those who bring on the developer resources, decide what these resources will do. I have seen them doing weird things like prioritizing issues and follow these priorities. Thank you for your comprehension.
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