[Libreoffice] [REVIEW] cherry-picking fix for fdo#38095, character classification for font selection -- 2 more reviews needed

[Fridrich Strba]

I cherry-picked to the 3-4 branch, 2 more reviews needed for the current
3.4.2 I guess.

F.

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:50 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote: 
> On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 01:14 +0900, Takeshi Abe wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > According to a discussion on the Japanese local mailing list,
> > the following issue may prevent some users from migrating
> > to 3.4.x series:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38095
> 
> Looking for ack-s for 3-4 and 3-4-2.
> 
> The goal is to reset the classification of the entire full+half width
> range back to ASIAN, i.e. consider the 0-9 and A-z full-width forms as
> ASIAN despite their UAX24 classification as Latin, because that's the
> way it used to be done and documents change otherwise, and because the
> full-width Latin/Common Numerals exist in order to be the same cell
> width as full-width CJK chars so they should be rendered with a CJK
> font, which is all we want this particular classification to determine
> for us.
> 
> I also reset back the entire number-forms range to WEAK as well, i.e.
> the single-glyph roman-numerals "i", "IV", etc. seeing as they also
> really only exist in order to be nicely rendered in CJK vertical text
> mode.
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/libs-gui/commit/?id=e76c8d80009c8e29abf0447b7edc157eb42c9e56
> 
> looks big, but its basically just if "old explicitly assigned range use
> old assignment" else "do probably technically correct thing"
> 
> C.
> 
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