https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151290

Jonathan Clark <[email protected]> changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW

--- Comment #13 from Jonathan Clark <[email protected]> ---
There are many characters that are common to multiple script groups. Currently,
we assign characters to script groups using a hard-coded algorithm. It's not
possible to make a perfect algorithm, so we get it wrong: sometimes in ways we
can hack around (e.g. bug 112594), and sometimes in ways we can't (e.g. bug
66791). For legacy/compatibility reasons, many characters that should be
treated as common are also hard-coded as Western characters, which forces CJK
and CTL language users to care about Western scripts while proofing even though
they aren't really using them.

Explicit language runs would give users control over the behavior of these
ambiguous characters. This is a missing but much-needed escape hatch for users
working outside of the Western script group happy path. I am therefore marking
this bug new.

Using explicit language runs to disambiguate script groups would also be a good
MVP for this feature. It would be useful on its own, and per-language style
features could build upon those changes.

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