| Summary: | Typing ZWNJ in Calc is not possible on Windows | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Hossein <hossein> |
| Component: | Calc | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | afshin, bright.email |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.4.0.3 release | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Windows (All) | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150511 | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 43808, 151986 | ||
| Attachments: | Aa screenshot of the keyboard shortcut key menu | ||
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Description
Hossein
2022-08-20 09:34:16 UTC
All shortcuts for ZWNJ, including the ones I made using AutoHotkey are now broken, also broken in LibreOffice Write. Not only that, but also no character can now be inserted into a text using and Alt+xxxx combination. For instance, it used to be possible to insert “, ”, ‘, and ’ by using Alt+0147, Alt+0148, Alt+0145, and Alt+0146 respectively. Now, as soon as the Alt key is pressed, other actions hijack the event and either parts of the UI switches on or off or something else happens. Disabling the shortcuts in the Customization menu does not seem to disable the hijacking of the Alt key, so that is also broken. I believe for this latter issue a new bug report must be opened. Therefor, the only way to insert a ZWNJ character now is to go through the Special Characters menu, find the character, and then insert it into the text. I think I might have a hypothesis why this is happening: 1- Go to Tools -> Customize... -> Keyboard 2- Scroll down to where the keyboard shortcut for Ctr+Shift+2 is 3- Assign the shortcut you need to use 4- Before you leave, look at what is on the side of the top right corner of the Shortcut Keys list: You will see a radio selector that might be defaulted to Calc, Write, or any other app you are inside 5- Now switch to the top radio item, i.e. LibreOffice (in my case LibreOfficeDev because I am using a development version) 6- Repeat steps 2 and 3 above 7- Click on OK The software should correctly behave as you asked it to behave. I went through the same steps (missed step 4 the first 100 times that I was trying to find a reason why this is happening). Once done, my AutoHotkey script is now working fine (it inserts everything I wanted it to insert, including the ZWNJ character. Please let us know if these steps fixed the issue. Created attachment 191673 [details]
Aa screenshot of the keyboard shortcut key menu
This is a screenshot of the menu for Customization of the keyboard shortcut keys. In this image, the section that has caused me confusion and wasted hours of my time trying to troubleshoot the issue is indicated by a red rectangle on the top right corner.
@Eric, you are mixing different reports. Bug 158112 is about the [ALT]+[numpad] shortcuts. Bug 150512 is about a specific character under specific conditions. There is a chance that these two reports are actually about the same thing, and so resolving one would resolve the other too. Please, until then, let's keep each of these reports on-topic. |