[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 134940] --> does not replace automatically to → in AutoCorrect

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134940

--- Comment #15 from sdc.blanco at youmail.dk ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #14)
> https://help.libreoffice.org/7.1/en-US/text/shared/01/06040200.
> html#bm_id1574449 for description of the .*
Just to be sure that I understand this correctly (because the paragraph is hard
to read; needs some grammatical improvements.).

Because there is a .*->.*  in the replace table (much farther down, after the :
: entries), then -> gets replaced automatically.  (so now I understand why ->
was replaced.  And thanks for the helpful screenshot.) 

And I can see the "advantage" with that pattern because arrows can be inserted
in a string without spaces, so I can type:  H2+02->H20 and the -> is 
automatically converted to → even though there were no spaces in what I
entered. 
(it works. I tried it.)

(And thanks for the help pointer!  Interesting possibilities with that
feature.)

But then in relation to this bug report, maybe there is a regression -- see
comment 7.

In 6.3.6.2  --> replaced to →   (as it should according to the replace table)
but in 7.1.0.3 and 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ and maybe as early as 7.0.0.0.alpha0+,
 --> was converted to –>  (en-dash greater-than)

That seems wrong -- or is there another help page that we should be reading?
(-:

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