[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 140442] New: Make non-breaking hyphen the default hyphen character in LibreOffice Writer

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140442

            Bug ID: 140442
           Summary: Make non-breaking hyphen the default hyphen character
                    in LibreOffice Writer
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: Inherited From OOo
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: felixbrezo at gmail.com

Description:
Knowing that it is probably a non-standard feature that may lead to some
discussion, in my experience almost most of the time that I manually add in a
text processor a hyphen is expected to work as a non-breaking hyphen. I wonder
if, given the particularities of this symbol, this could be an option to
consider by default instead of using, for example, Ctrl + Shift  + U + 2011 in
GNU/Linux systems to insert it. 

I feel that maybe newcomers would feel comfortable with this forgetting about
why manually split words are put in different lines which may be not an
easy‑to‑understand behaviour to describe for many people. Admitting that this
may need an additional feature to activate or deactivate the configuration in
the application options, I think that this may be helpful.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a random sentence with a long word at the end that forces the word to
go to the next line
2. Add to the last word a standard hyphen


Actual Results:
The behaviour can be check taking into account that half of the word is in the
line above and the other below which, in fact, is a spelling mistake recognised
as such in languages such as Spanish.

Expected Results:
Using by default a non-breaking hyphen and letting Ctrl + Shift + - for
standard hyphens could help to make it transparent for newcomers considering
that many times the non-breaking hyphen is expected to work as a linker.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
References about non-breaking characters seemed not to be linked to this visual
issue.

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