[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116835] Find & Replace: default value of "Diacritic-sensitive" (on/ off) should be locale-specific

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116835

Mihkel Tõnnov <mihhkel at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #4 from Mihkel Tõnnov <mihhkel at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Eike Rathke from comment #3)
> The default is now Diacritic-sensitive, but has an effect only in new
> installations as the checkbox value is remembered in the user configuration,
> which in existing installations was remembered from the hidden
> Diacritic-ignore status.

OK, I can live with that :)

> Fwiw, contrary to what was said in comment 0, in German I do *not* expect
> diacritics to be ignored. Umlauts are distinct letters, not some "variation
> of a base" letter. Searching for Bar should not find Bär.
> I could bet also in French accented characters are not to be mangled.

Oh. Well, I might have read too much into the old default (diacritic-sensitive
= off) and my admittedly fading knowledge of German. But if also German (and
French) should default to diacritic-sensitive search, then all the better.

> Trying to couple the Diacritic-sensitive default to locale/language IMHO is
> doomed to fail. There is no default locale with text, text either has a
> specific locale attribute or is set to None. Different portions of text can
> have different locales assigned. Often enough text is attributed with the
> user's current default locale but is written in another language and the
> attribute never changed. A coupled default would lead to bad user experience.

Agreed that it would be tricky. But if we default to diacritic-sensitive search
now (also for English with its varying spellings à la naive/naïve etc.), then
the issue is pretty much resolved in my eyes.

> Rather tackle the reason why Diacritic-sensitive was introduced first-hand:
> for Arabic. So have a second Arabic-diacritic-sensitive checkbox and if
> (default) unchecked ignore diacritics only in text portions written in
> Arabic script.

I agree. Presumably a new enhancement request would be needed for that?

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