[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 142652] New: [LOCALHELP] Add glossary term for Half-width and Full-width characters

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142652

            Bug ID: 142652
           Summary: [LOCALHELP] Add glossary term for Half-width and
                    Full-width characters
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Documentation
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: olivier.hallot at libreoffice.org
                CC: olivier.hallot at libreoffice.org
            Blocks: 80430

Half-width and full-width character deserves an explanation in the glossary:

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/shared/00/00000005.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=UNIX

(Help file is helpcontent2/source/text/shared/00/00000005.xhp)

in order to address a good explanation on string converstion (StrConv Function)
as well as Find and Replace dialog

Source: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/help/+/116684
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Mike Kaganski

I believe this needs some clarification - it would be confusing for most who do
not meet wide/narrow characters daily (so for all except Asian users). Wide vs
narrow characters - *IIUC* - are special forms of normal Latin alphabet (and
maybe other Western alphabets, like Cyrillic/Greek?), that are shaped to fit a
single Chinese character (wide), or two Western characters per one Chinese
character (narrow) (again, this is IIUC - and I am confused by this, too).
Single-byte vs double-byte tells not much, and in fact is misleading for
Unicode - it comes from use of a *specific* codepage on MS systems in Asia,
where those characters were encoded specifically - but current text this
*looks* as if it converts between single-byte and UTF-16 encodings (which is
not so).

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms

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Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80430
[Bug 80430] [META] Documentation gap for new features
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