Re: [Libreoffice] A thought about fdo#38095: Character classification for Western or Asian text font

Hi Caolán,

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:20:02 +0100, Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 01:14 +0900, Takeshi Abe wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > According to a discussion on the Japanese local mailing list,
> > the following issue may prevent some users from migrating
> > to 3.4.x series:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38095
> >
> > I am not yet sure how it works in 3.3.x, but at least for Calc
> > on master, there seems a gap around determining a font from the
> > Unicode Script Property of content of a cell.
>
> This will be an easy fix, I'll take it. I had seen the change in passing
> and stuck it as a to-do to examine it, but hadn't realized it wasn't
> just an obscure edge-case that these number-forms were no longer
> categorized the same as they had been historically. IIRC they used to be
> "WEAK" chars but are now being categorized as "LATIN" like the
> numbers/letters they resemble.
Hm, that sounds likely.
Thanks a lot for your attention.

Cheers,
-- Takeshi Abe

> i18npool/source/breakiterator/breakiteratorImpl.cxx will be the right
> place.
>
> C.