https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156507
Bug ID: 156507
Summary: Ability to remove all "atypical" characters in a
stretch of text
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Stretches of text contain "usual" characters - the one that one typically
produces uses the keyboard (not using a numeric charcode sequence): Letters,
punctuation marks, digits, spaces; but they may contain more exotic characters,
like directionality marks, non-breaking spaces, zero-width joiners, and other
oddities. The latter ones are most often invisible, and it is thus almost
impossible to know whether a stretch of text has them, other than by moving the
cursor, one character at a time, over this stretch (and maybe even then you
might miss some, I don't know).
When we open a document created by another person, or program - we might
encounter such problematic stretches of text; and so is the case when we copy
some text from a rendered PDF document or other application which exposes text,
but renders it with a lot of specific restrictions constrictions.
It would be useful if we could select a piece of text, and clean it up from
these "special" characters, with only the ones with visible-glyph effect
remaining.
The question of which characters to delete is not trivial, and it could be
either a wider or narrower set, or even several possible sets which the user
chooses among. You (=readers of this bug) are kindly requested to help with
suggestions regarding what could be the relevant set of characters we should
allow purges of.
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