Re: [RESOLVED] ICU 4.9 causes a bug with writer (words aren't split correctly)

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 14:35 +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > See #49849.
> >
> > Same LibO version (3.5.3) on Debian/Ubuntu is built with ICU 4.8 and
> > doesn't have the problem.
> >
> > Would be nice to get another confirmation and to understand if that's
> > a pure problem with ICU or also something in LibO.
>
> Yeah, this began to affect master now that the internal icu was bumped
> to icu 49 so I've fixed it with
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=20c24114143d6d38774b56a142fd4ae05094308e
>
> Thanks for the quick fix (:


> Latest line breaking UAX brought in some special hebrew rules, so a new
> hebrew letter class got added, so, seeing as we have customized rules,
> this ended up meaning that hebrew characters got totally ignored by our
> rules cause they didn't know about the new character class :-)

Can we also merge it to the 3.5 branch to be included in 3.5.4? In any
case, I referred the reporter to ask for the fix to be included in his
distro.

Kaplan