[Bug 166012] Apply style:script-type when users manually set a language for a run containing weak characters

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166012

--- Comment #2 from Jonathan Clark <jonathan at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Can you outline the pros and cons of "apply a script"? Or why is this an
> extra ticket?

Currently, users cannot influence how LibreOffice determines the script type
for certain ambiguous characters (e.g. punctuation). This bug proposes
overloading Tools->Language->For Selection to also set a hint that ambiguous
characters in the selection should be treated as the script type of the
indicated language.

Pros:

- We want to expose this control somehow, and doing it this way avoids adding
more to the user interface.
- Doing it this way is the precedent set by other suites.

Cons:

- This changes the behavior of an existing feature.
- Document appearance may differ depending on whether languages were set
through the menu/statusbar or via styles

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