https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148329
Bug ID: 148329
Summary: Accept Hebrew Maqaf for '-' in search pattern
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Blocks: 112812
The Hebrew language uses a character named Maqaf - essentially a top hyphen -
instead of the Latin languages' inter-word hyphen. It is not a dash (neither en
nor em), and is not used as a minus sign. More about this character:
https://codepoints.net/U+05BE
Now, a Maqaf does not appear on the Hebrew keyboard; and in Hebrew files
written on PCs rather the professionally typeset, it is more common than not to
find hyphens used instead. When you open a document, you can't know for sure
whether Maqaf's will be used, or hyphens/minus characters, or some of those and
some of those.
For this reason, it would be useful if, when searching a document using
patterns involving a minus sign or a Maqaf - each of those characters would
match, i.e. a search for בר-כוח would also match בר־כוח (note the top hyphen!)
and vice-versa.
This relaxed match should qualified so that the double-match would only be
accepted for Maqafs/hyphens which come between two other Hebrew characters; or
perhaps at the end or the beginning of a sequence of Hebrew characters (a bit
more lax of a restriction).
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112812
[Bug 112812] [META] Hebrew language-specific RTL issues
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