[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 156507] Ability to remove non-printing/"atypical" characters in a stretch of text

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156507

Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Ability to remove all       |Ability to remove
                   |"atypical" characters in a  |non-printing/"atypical"
                   |stretch of text             |characters in a stretch of
                   |                            |text
           See Also|                            |https://bugs.documentfounda
                   |                            |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58
                   |                            |434
             Blocks|                            |102345

--- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)

That's an interesting bug... because even though bug 58434 is marked as fixed,
some/many non-printing characters aren't displayed with Ctrl+F10. Also, some
characters are not mentioned in the table
(https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=112798), e.g. RLO, LRO,
RLE, LRE, PDF and that's just ones I can mention off the top of my head. So,
one wonders how that's marked as fixed.

Having said that - even if these characters were somehow marked - this feature
would still be useful, because:

1. Many users would not be able to distinguish between the markings
2. Many users don't know what these characters mean, even if told their names.
3. The user might not want to retain all of these characters. In this sense,
removing non-printing/non-keyboard-insertable/atypical characters is a bit like
clearing direct formatting, or resetting capitalization to small caps etc. It's
not something you necessarily want to do, but sometimes it's just the right
tool.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102345
[Bug 102345] [META] Formatting marks (aka Non-printing characters) bugs and
enhancements
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