[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 131213] Pasting non-printable Unicode character into LibreOffice makes it unusable

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131213

--- Comment #5 from github.ds at web.de ---
I appreciate the time you took to explain this to me and I understand your
reasoning. I must object, however, that it is based on a false premise. I did
not expect „PUA mapping for pasting from unknown fonts“. I clearly stated that
I’d expect the GUI to „not lock up“, even to the point where I have to force
quit LibreOffice. This is not the same.

I encourage you to look on it from an end user perspective. Some institution
sends me a PDF. I copy the text. I paste it in LibreOffice. LibreOffice hangs
and must be force quit.

If I follow you correctly, you argue that I – as an end user – should not only
be debugging this problem to the point where I can identify the glyphs I
actually pasted (though they look fine on the PDF), but also to be
knowledgeable enough about the Unicode standard and its relation to Font and
rendering implementations to come to the conclusion that I do something
„unreasonable“ and do not expect LibreOffice to not hang up before my eyes. I
find that bold.

Please don’t misunderstand me. I do not feel entitled to demand that this is
fixed. Fortunately I have enough technical understanding to work around such
issues. I report them with the understanding that LibreOffice is not only aimed
at a technically versed audience, but also at laymen, who have never heard of
Unicode or PUA. For them, I think, this is just plain bad UX.

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