Searching a document for 'ß' will also highlight 'ss' — and vice versa. This is only mildly useful. The workaround is to enable case sensitive matching. However, ß/ss have nothing to do with case-sensitivity. It would therefore be nice if there were a better way to disable this bit of "smartness" in libreoffice searching.
Failed to reproduce for LibreOffice 3.4 340m1(Build:103) on OpenSuse Linux. I inserted "beta" via Insert->Special character and then entered a bunch of words ending in ss and ss individually. Searching for beta does not highlight any of the ss terms, nor does searching for ss highlight beta. I am running writer in English.
It is not "beta", it is Eszett. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F) Simple way to paste it is copy from the reporter's post. Reproduced with LO 3.4.2 OOO340m1 (Build:202) Ubuntu 10.04.3 x86 Linux 2.6.32-33-generic Russian UI
Modified: 'Version: unspecified' 'Match case' (to differentiate between 'ss' and 'ß') has always been the relevant workaround in all versions of LibO (and OOo, too).
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Still reproducible with LibO 3.5.0 Beta2 [LOdev 3.5.0beta2 · Build ID: 8589e48-760cc4d-f39cf3d-1b2857e-60db978] (on WinXP 32b · UI en-US) Moving back to NEW from NEEDINFO again.
LibreOffice should not mess with eszett and "ss", that's incorrect given that eszett has an uppercase letter in its own: ẞ (U+1E9E). Of course, I think there are German spelling rules which state that ß's uppercase is "SS".
The upper case of ß is SS. See SpecialCasing.txt, line 57 (?). There is no telling from where "ss" or "SS" in a document are coming from.
I have to reopen this bug. The case is, that the "ß" sign doesn't exist in Switzerland. If I have to change a text, then I have to change all the "Esszett" into a normal "ss". For this, I have to find all the "ß" signs. For this, I think, the behavior of the search has to be changed. A "ß -> ss" kombination has only to be found, if the "similarity search" is turned on. Without this, if a "ß" is given, no "ss" should be found. Greetings from Switzerland, Markus
Modified "Status" to "NEW".
*** Bug 62823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
reproducible with LO 4.3.2.2 (Win 8.1)
Of course it is reproducible as that is the intended behaviour. Reporter should take his reasoning to the Unicode committee and close that as NOTABUG.
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