With the new special character dialog it is now possible to search for unicode names like "cross". This workflow is supposed to be the primary method for average users to deal with (not frequently used) special characters. The question is whether or not it should also be possible to search by localized names such as "Kreuz" in German or "Croix" in French. Any mapping should keep the original unicode names, for example 'CROSS MARK' for U+274C. Patch with some discussion https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/40563/ Unicode table in German https://unicode-table.com/de/
_No_ just no! At Unicode ver 10.0 there are ~136,000 defined codepoints each with a Unicode consortium approved "name". While name "translation" for each script would be a percentage of the total it would still be a daunting task. IHMO what is being suggested would sink the l10n team and is ill-advised. If ICU were to provide library, maybe. But they don't. -> WF
Last time we discussed it the idea was to add a string notifying that the search is only in English. Has it changed? Sophie
I think the idea was to piggy-back on the existing translations (c.f. link from Heiko)
I suggest to reuse official or similar translations of Unicode characters as it's logistically not doable to localize all by ourselves. As most people in the world (except developers, IT professionals, people from Sweden ;-) etc.) don't know English names for characters, the search restricted to English names is mostly useless.
> I suggest to reuse official or similar translations of Unicode characters There is no such thing. The Unicode Standard is English-only. It used to be released in French as well, but that was in the past. This is why you should be able to search for characters by their code point hexadecimal number.
The link Heiko posted seems to be a company named Unicode-Table, but they are not part of Unicode (https://unicode-table.com/en/about/). As Adolfo stated, there is no translation else than French available at Unicode site. Sophie
And I can't find a license on their GitHub repo https://github.com/unicode-table/unicode-table-data/wiki/Index-%28English%29, do you know under what license they release the tables?
(In reply to sophie from comment #6) > The link Heiko posted seems to be a company named Unicode-Table, but they > are not part of Unicode (https://unicode-table.com/en/about/). And the translations are incomplete. As probably any translation of Unicode character names will ever be. A localized search leading to only a few matching characters that happen to be translated is useless.
Speaking as a translator: I don't think it is possible (for us) to provide translations for all those characters in the unicode table. Speaking as a user: The search feature is completely useless for me if I need to know the characters' English names while I am using a localized LO. So I see only one way to go: enable search for characters by their hexadecimal number along with their English names. But in case we find a source of translated strings for those characters, that would be fantastic. :)
If there is no ready translation for reuse available, I would suggest either a partial localization of most used characters like arrow and cross or a localization with the help of programmers: for example in http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0800.pdf there are only a few words to be localizable (Samaritan, letter, mark, vowel, sign, long, short ...), the language-specific names (alaf, bit, gaman ...) needn't to be localized. I Assume such name system exists in most code blocks.
As stated by others, this would be a difficult task for l10n teams to take on with very little benefit, so lets just close it.
I learned today that this exists: https://github.com/samhocevar/unicode-translation If we integrate that project (once it’s more complete) as a dependency, then it would be possible to localize Unicode characters!!
That's unmaintained since 5 years.