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Double-click text selection for Catalan words with L·L #33

Open jmontane opened 11 months ago

jmontane commented 11 months ago

Inspired by issue #32, I open this issue.

Some browsers (i.e. Firefox/Gecko) split words with L·L when double-clicking them. Middle dot · (U+00B7) is used as inner word character for Catalan (and other languages) and those words shouldn't be divided. The same problem occurs with text caret navigation and text selection with keyboard when words with L·L are present.

Chrome 115 (Linux) works fine: If I double-click a word with L·L the whole word is selected. Caret navigation and text selection with keyboard work fine too.

I'm unable to test Bing engine.

Related: UAX TR29 classifies U+00B7 as MidLetter and forbids word segmentation between alphabetical chars.

r12a commented 11 months ago

Gracies, @jmontane. I'll look into this and raise a gap report. (It may take a week or so.)