Bug 101516

Summary:	UI: Special Characters dialog additional work
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Óvári <ovari123>
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	libreoffice-ux-advise, vsfoote
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	needsUXEval
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56301
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Attachments:	Special Characters Dialog box

Description Óvári 2016-08-14 10:35:13 UTC

Created attachment 126826 [details]
Special Characters Dialog box

Please see attachment which show suggestions to add the the Special Characters dialog box:
 1. Name (of character), this will enable:
(a) search by keyword
(b) the correct character to be selected, eg when selecting the ‘degree’ character
 2. Search box (for searching by keyword or codepoint)
 3. Search box for searching by drawing the character

Additionally, it is suggested to write the Hexadecimal code for ‘SPACE’ as ‘0020’ no ‘20’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

Further, when hovering with the mouse above a character, a bubble could come up with:
i. the character (which is larger)
ii. the name of the character (eg. SPACE); and
iii. the unicode value of the character (eg. U+0020).
This could make it quicker in selecting the correct character and improve accessibility for vision impaired and small screen devices.

Thank you

Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2016-09-15 15:13:33 UTC

Thanks for the mockup, covers much of the same ground as the UX-Design team session:

http://user-prompt.com/libreoffice-design-session-special-character/

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 34882 ***