[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 135446] Writer hangs accessing Special Characters dialog

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135446

--- Comment #3 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Rachmiel Langer from comment #2)
> I do this in order to then repeatedly insert the character into the middle
> of my Hebrew text in various locations - often as an accent mark in the
> midst of a teaching text. I've been doing this for about a year, and it's
> only recently that it often (but not always) hangs.
> 
> Otherwise, I have to go through the extensive menu steps leading to "insert"
> for each insertion which is quite unwieldy. In the past, I used direct
> Unicode Alt keystrokes to generate the accent character, but my current
> keyboard doesn't seem to support that.

OK, there could of course be an issue with the Special Character dialog. 

But as an alternative work flow--do your copy from your document canvas after
the initial paste or Unicode toggle. 

That is type the Unicode "U+05ab", or other codepoint as needed, and position
the cursor at the end of the string.  An <Atl>+X will toggle to the glyph
either using the current paragraph font--or use the operating system's fallback
for the glyph as appropriate to the paragraph. 

That glyph copied to clipboard will persist--until a different selection is
copied to clipboard.

Of course it is a combining glyph--so you may still have to use the Special
Character dialog as a insert picker, or input the Unicode from keyboard and
convert.

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