https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112267
--- Comment #16 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #14) > > The question is whether or not it should also be possible to search by > > localized names such as "Kreuz" in German or "Croix" in French. > > It should. > > English should not have preferential status w.r.t. labeling of characters. > Either we have localized search-by-name, or we not have search-by-name at > all. > > ... that is, except if this functionality is "outsourced". If we use some > system facility / library to perform this search, then I would say that it > is NAB, but we should then file relevant bugs with whoever provides us this > functionality. > > (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) > > _No_ just no! At Unicode ver 10.0 there are ~136,000 defined codepoints each > > with a Unicode consortium approved "name". > > If you were to argue in favor of removing all of these names and the > search-by-name functionality altogether, then ok. Otherwise, why should it > be English? Our users, in the general case, do not know any English. And the > more we have adoption in Asia and Africa the more true this will be. > We've made no claim to provide more than implementation of the Unicode standard. The Standard is naming in English--absent translation of those standard names, we should not search? That is not tenable, and rather naive. That is like saying our coding and annotation should be localized. We search/filter against the Standard--by Unicode point value, by Name, by Unicode block groupings. If l10n translations of the Unicode standard names can be accomplished to some degree of completeness--then it would make sense to support use of those localized names both in the SCD's UI display but also for its search features. Absent that effort requested here, we work against the Names provided by Unicode standard. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
