[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 111816] Cannot find special character if does not know character name but number

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111816

--- Comment #7 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #5)
> > Please give some thought...
> 
> No need to argue, I have no data. You say people remember the unicode id,
> like it was back in DOS times with ASCII 132 for ä, rather than searching by
> the name 'umlaut' or the correct term 'DIAERESIS'. 
> And I'm not saying it never happens. If I'd use unicode 0x228 for the ä, and
> wheel through the fonts it should work like with a search term, which is the
> fact until I reach OpenSymbol. Scrolling now through this font, changes the
> unicode as expected. 

We support folks with our <Alt>+X toggle (bug 73691) and do not integrate OS
provided "deadkeys" IME (bug 71176 or bug 42437) so it is a bit disingenuous to
suggest now that we don't steer our polyglots toward Unicode. 

> Turning the use case around, Regina's workflow, the font for a char that is
> not commonly integrated could be found. That means, when the font doesn't
> contain of this item nothing is selected in the chars table. But the unicode
> fields have a value. Today the table corresponds to the id field.
> To me the benefits of this workflow don't outweigh the drawback of
> inconsistency.

And the other side of the design case is that we have collapsed empty cells in
the Unicode table representation. By doing that we obscure ability to determine
the font is missing glyphs/graphemes for Codepoints within a Unicode block.

It makes for concise chart, but destroys one of the strengths of Unicode of
being able to select a front from drop list to determine if the font has
coverage of the needed glyphs by looking at its table in 15 col hex.

After the GSOC '17 is finished -- I'd move to see the additional support of
Unicode based 15 column charts organized/showing HEX value and composite font
searches.

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