[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 104889] Typing quotation marks into find toolbar fails to find smart quotes

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104889

--- Comment #4 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to hexafraction from comment #3)
> Thank you for clarifying. However, isn't this expected behavior at the
> expense of end-user usability? 

No.

> ... then
> performing a search for the latter via the find bar, although not equivalent
> in the Unicode representation of the document, would be expected to yield
> those results--

But that is the point, the Find Bar "as implemented" does not apply the auto
correction to the entered search string--no search capability does (nor should
we expect it to). Rather what is typed is what is searched for, and the
original opening/closing single or double quote have already been replaced in
the text and so will not be found. Requiring regular expression based search
only available in the _advanced_ "Find & Replace" dialog tool.

> In my personal opinion smart-quotes should be transparent to
> the person ultimately composing the document and using the software (or the
> quotes could get auto-corrected when typing into the find bar).
> 

By that logic why even have the _simple_ "Find Bar"--eliminate it for
_advanced_ function of the Find & Replace dialog--and force folks to learn the
more capable tool?  

No, folks want a simple search capability--what's typed is what's found.

And those that need to do more complex things demand something else. Finding
auto-corrected text is not a _simple_ search, so requires the later. Different
requirements so different tools.

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