Bug 166537 - Asian Phonetic Guide (Ruby) Group alters base text (moves spaces)
Summary: Asian Phonetic Guide (Ruby) Group alters base text (moves spaces)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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25.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Ruby
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Reported: 2025-05-12 05:56 UTC by Seán Ó Séaghdha
Modified: 2025-09-11 15:19 UTC (History)
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Shows examples of text before and after adding Ruby text (71.75 KB, image/png)
2025-05-12 05:56 UTC, Seán Ó Séaghdha 		Details
Before adding ruby (120.94 KB, image/jpeg)
2025-09-11 13:20 UTC, Seán Ó Séaghdha 		Details
Using Group moves spaces to the end of the string (145.44 KB, image/jpeg)
2025-09-11 13:20 UTC, Seán Ó Séaghdha 		Details
Resulting mangled text (133.59 KB, image/jpeg)
2025-09-11 13:21 UTC, Seán Ó Séaghdha 		Details
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Description Seán Ó Séaghdha 2025-05-12 05:56:18 UTC 
Created attachment 200751 [details]
Shows examples of text before and after adding Ruby text

Using the new Group feature in the Asian Phonetic Guide dialog is destructive of text that uses spaces. When you use the Group button and add phonetic text, all the spaces in the base text are moved to the end of the selected text.
Comment 1 Seán Ó Séaghdha 2025-05-30 04:09:42 UTC 
This is also true for (true) ’ apostrophes. They don’t appear in the dialog and they are shifted to the end of the text when you use grouping.

Every verb in Irish that starts with a vowel will have a past tense starting in d’ and these are usually transcribed phonetically as one sound, so this bug makes doing phonetic mark-up extremely tedious.

This doesn’t happen with ' though, which appears in the dialog and isn’t shifted. These symbols are semantically identical and should not be treated differently.
Comment 2 Seán Ó Séaghdha 2025-09-11 13:20:15 UTC 
Created attachment 202795 [details]
Before adding ruby
Comment 3 Seán Ó Séaghdha 2025-09-11 13:20:52 UTC 
Created attachment 202796 [details]
Using Group moves spaces to the end of the string
Comment 4 Seán Ó Séaghdha 2025-09-11 13:21:19 UTC 
Created attachment 202797 [details]
Resulting mangled text
Comment 5 Seán Ó Séaghdha 2025-09-11 13:22:13 UTC 
I see this is still a problem in v. 25.8.0.4