| Summary: | : The way Writer counting Chinese words is not correct | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | TaiJan Huang <blackjay> |
| Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Caolán McNamara <caolan.mcnamara> |
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | arnaud.versini, caolan.mcnamara, sasha.libreoffice, timar74 |
| Priority: | highest | ||
| Version: | 3.5.0 RC2 | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | BSA target:3.6.0 | ||
| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Attachments: | helpful demo of what's apparently expected behaviour | ||
@ TaiJan Huang Thanks for bugreport. It reproducible in 3.5.1 @ Andras Please, take look at this bug when will have time. Here word count is wrong for Chinese. What you think about this? Created attachment 59176 [details]
helpful demo of what's apparently expected behaviour
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=01028864214a1b1ee6bf3f00fca142baf7b1d40c Resolves: fdo#45271, i#17964 count CJK words the way that's expected by users |
Problem description: The way of counting Chinese words in the word count function of Libreoffice is not suitable (and even useless) to Chinese speakers. In Chinese, we count "character" instead of "word." For example, 蘋果 (a.k.a. apple) is a "word" with two characters. In fact, the meaning of "word" in Chinese equals the meaning of "character" in English. Therefore, the following word count should be three words: " 蘋果 apple" But the current behavior of word count would show two words because it counts 蘋果 as one word while it should be counted as two words in Chinese. This is a longstanding bug for Chinese speakers. Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0