[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 111846] Find & Replace: Rename diacritics and kashida search options

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111846

--- Comment #20 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Thomas Lendo from comment #19)
> The 2 main reasons are stated in the initial post. From the UX point of view
> it's worth to discuss that and to take it into consideration.
> 
> Many search results in Google of "ignore diacritics" are developer-related.
> The search functionality of LibO is used by non-developers mostly. Also
> "include" is only a suggestion--a good and better term has to be found by
> English native speakers so that it will be understand immediately.

Inventing new jargon is unlikely to help users, unlike sticking to existing
nomenclature. That is similar to the never ending attempts to replace the
floppy disk save icon with some of thing modern just because someone thinks
this will help users who never saw an actual floppy disk.

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