Unicode combining characters editing support

[DavorV]

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Hi, I wish to have Unicode combining characters supported, as per Unicode standard. It should go like this:

• when you scroll from left to right ticking right arrow key, it should skip to the next normal character, and it works fine,
• when you scroll from left to right with shift+right arrow key, it should select a normal character together with all combining characters attached to it, and it also works fine, but,
• !!! when you scroll from right to left using left arrow key, it should not skip combining characters, and if shift is also pressed it should select a combining character !!!

In MS Office in Windows there is a combination alt+x that toggles a character left from cursor into its Hex code. I often have to use this option in Word because in new version of MS Office the behaviour is also not as it should be as per Unicode standard. Right now I'm in search of an Office suite that supports Unicode properly, because I edit a lot of Sanskrit documents, and my work relies on proper Unicode implementation. Thanks, Davor

[matveevms]

Hello, @DavorV Could you attach a video so we can understand exactly what problem you are talking about?

[DavorV]

Hello Maxim,

I'll send you a video shortly. I don't have any video editing setup on my laptop at the moment. But in light of this issue, I previously made a how-to for taming the same quirks in MS Word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbAFqbjReR8 Problem is that after version 2013 MS Word became worse in this regard. Also the reference for combining characters implementation would be https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/ but the way editing of combining characters is implemented is left to the ingenuity of each editor programmers.

I'll be back with the video in a day or two.

Cheers,

Davor Virkes

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 15:06, Maksim Matveev @.***> wrote:

Hello, @DavorV https://github.com/DavorV Could you attach a video so we can understand exactly what problem you are talking about?

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[DavorV]

Hello Maxim,

This is my other video about doing changes on combining characters in mass, using a table calculator like Excel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yBBrfPhI8w

Cheers,

Davor

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 16:22, Davor Virkes @.***> wrote:

Hello Maxim,

I'll send you a video shortly. I don't have any video editing setup on my laptop at the moment. But in light of this issue, I previously made a how-to for taming the same quirks in MS Word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbAFqbjReR8 Problem is that after version 2013 MS Word became worse in this regard. Also the reference for combining characters implementation would be https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/ but the way editing of combining characters is implemented is left to the ingenuity of each editor programmers.

I'll be back with the video in a day or two.

Cheers,

Davor Virkes

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 15:06, Maksim Matveev @.***> wrote:

Hello, @DavorV https://github.com/DavorV Could you attach a video so we can understand exactly what problem you are talking about?

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[DavorV]

Dear Maxim,

Here is the video that you asked for: https://youtu.be/xQLn2tr8jwE It is not advertised on youtube, but anyone can access it with the link above.

Thanks for taking care of this. I'm aware this functionality is way beyond everyday use, and my kind of users are on the niche side. I'd recommend Onlyoffice to everyone for everyday use.

Thanks,

Davor

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 16:44, Davor Virkes @.***> wrote:

Hello Maxim,

This is my other video about doing changes on combining characters in mass, using a table calculator like Excel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yBBrfPhI8w

Cheers,

Davor

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 16:22, Davor Virkes @.***> wrote:

Hello Maxim,

I'll send you a video shortly. I don't have any video editing setup on my laptop at the moment. But in light of this issue, I previously made a how-to for taming the same quirks in MS Word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbAFqbjReR8 Problem is that after version 2013 MS Word became worse in this regard. Also the reference for combining characters implementation would be https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/ but the way editing of combining characters is implemented is left to the ingenuity of each editor programmers.

I'll be back with the video in a day or two.

Cheers,

Davor Virkes

On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 15:06, Maksim Matveev @.***> wrote:

Hello, @DavorV https://github.com/DavorV Could you attach a video so we can understand exactly what problem you are talking about?

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[matveevms]

Thanks for the suggestion for improvement, this is the bug number 68923. This is a proposal to add a hotkey to switch a symbol to its hexadecimal code. If you have other suggestions, please create a new issue.