[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 126387] New: Unsymmetrical fonts for quotation marks in mixed western and Asian text

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            Bug ID: 126387
           Summary: Unsymmetrical fonts for quotation marks in mixed
                    western and Asian text
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.1.6.3 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: plateauwolf at qq.com

LO Writer allows the user to specify different fonts for western and Asian text
within a single style.  This is a very useful feature, but for some charaters
that are used in both western and Asian text, it causes some undesired effects.

This bug is about the curly quotation marks, which are used frequently in both
English and Chinese texts.  Currently Writer seems to choose fonts by a simple
rule - the quotation mark just uses the font of the text it follows.  So
obviously in pure English text, the quotation marks use the Western font; while
in pure Chinese text they use Asian font.

For mixed English-and-Chinese text, however, this simple rule produces some
ugly results.  In text like 中文“English”中文 the opening quotation mark uses
Chinese font, and the closing one uses Western font.  On the other hand, in
text like English“中文”English, the opening quotation mark uses Western font and
the closing one uses Chinese font.

I'm not sure what the best result is, but the current unsymmetrical result is
probably the least desired one.  It would be nice if there is an option for
this, but I'll settle for any symmetrical solution.

I reproduced this bug in LO 6.1.6 on Windows 10, but it's quite independent on
versions and platforms, and has been reproduced by others on LO
6.1.5/6.2.3/6.3.0 RC1 on Linux.

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