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: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
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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