| Summary: | Cannot replace quotation marks with Special Character (U+22 Dec 34) | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | pmb <oc3vp7w8> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | oc3vp7w8, vsfoote |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.1.0.3 release | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Attachments: | difference between two types of marks | ||
You simply need to apply a different font (as direct formatting) that has the glyph you prefer. The Special Character dialog allows you to specify the font and shows a preview, and pastes the directly formatted glyph in that font. Also, you can also enter the Unicode codepoint directly with current release: type U+22 or U+27 then position the cursor immediately after, and convert with <alt>+X -- meaning you can lookup the codepoint for any glyph in any font you'd like to use and apply/convert it directly. So you'd not necessarily need to change directly format the font if your chosen font had a glyph that met your needs. Thank You for the help. I appreciate it. The information that you gave me is way above my pay grade but I understand bits of it. The subject of the bug was the find and replace of the characters. Searching for one did not replace the other. My workaround was to find and replace all the apostrophes with "z" then replace the "z" with the other apostrophe. It worked very well. I did the same with the quotation mark and it worked also. It should(?) have worked without the intermediary "z". I apologise if this is included in your answer but again I say my technical knowledge is very limited. Thank You again |
Created attachment 123127 [details] difference between two types of marks I used the en_GB quotation mark with a document to specify minutes. I didn't think it looked good. I tried to replace it with Special Character > Latin > U+22 - Dec 34. I wanted hour(apostrophe), minute(quotation mark). This is difficult to describe the difference in the two. My en_GB quotation marks look like two curved number 9s. The U+22 Dec 34 looks like the top of two exclamation points. See the attached graphic it may help! This is confusing. Top left of graphic is my en_GB apostrophe and top right is U+27 Dec 39. Bottom Left of graphic is my en_GB quotation mark while bottom right is the U+22 Dec 34. The replace function does not show any replacements to be replaced. Yet when I manually replace the single apostrophe, the inserted character looks different. I really do not know whether this is because of my language settings (could be the same character) or it is a bug. I am leaning towards the bug therefore I am writing this. Hope this helps.