[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 41652] “NO-BREAK SPACE” (U+00A0) interpretated incorrectly

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652

Roman Eisele <bugs at eikota.de> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |bugs at eikota.de
            Version|unspecified                 |LibO 3.3.0 Beta2
          Component|Libreoffice                 |Writer

--- Comment #3 from Roman Eisele <bugs at eikota.de> 2012-04-17 03:03:21 PDT ---
If I remember correctly, this is a very old problem already present in OOo 3.x
and maybe even older (therefore I changed the 'Version' picker back to the
oldest available version). It is also not limited to Czech typography, but the
Czech sample shows the severity of the problem especially well.

Writer interprets U+00A0 like a 'fixed width no-break space', but users with
some experience in typesettings or DTP applications (TeX with all variants '~',
QuarkXPress and others) expect that U+00A0 should behave completely like an
ordinary space character (U+0020), i.e. it should be extended and compressed in
justified paragraphs like an ordinary space character, it just should not break
at the end of a line ...

I have never complained about this problem because I assumed it is just a clash
of expecations: (many) Word processor users are used to the current behaviour,
i.e. to the fact that U+00A0 behaves like a “fixed width no-break space”, while
users with some experience in typesetting (like me and, obviously, dohnp5a1)
would expect the other behaviour, i.e. that U+00A0 should be extended and
compressed like a ordinary space. This is why I don’t use U+00A0 in Writer at
all, it is just unusable in justified paragraphs for me.

But the Czech sample shows that this IS a real problem, of course, and now I
know I'm not the only user who is not satisfied with the state of affairs.

So maybe we should discuss if the traditional behaviour should be changed,
probably with a new compatibility setting to keep the traditional behaviour for
old documents ...?!

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