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0016626ScribusTypographypublic2021-09-14 11:49
Reporterewac Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0016626: Zero Width Spaces are not visible
DescriptionZero width spaces (U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE) work well in Scribus, however they are not visible, even if the visibility of non-printing characters is being turned on. This makes working with them extremely difficult. Several languages that do not space words, like the Khmer language for example, use zero width spaces in digital text processing to indicate the seperation between words and are obviously very important for formatting.
Steps To ReproduceWrite / copy&paste text in Khmer language, use U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE. It works properly (for example: line-breaks occur on word boundries), but the character is not seen. Turn on View-Text Frames-Show Control Characters (which shows all other non-printing characters just fine), however the zero width space is still not visible.
Additional InformationScreenshots show the same text in Open Office (with zero width spaces visible) and in Scribus (zero width spaces not visible)
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related to 0009615 new Find a way to display all kind of spaces (thin, thick, mid, etc) differently when "Show Control Character" is enabled 
related to 0010301 new All types of non breaking spaces should be displayed as red underscore in story editor 
child of 0004004 acknowledged Metabug: Typographic spacing 

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ewac

2021-08-31 02:30

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utnik

2021-08-31 03:28

updater   ~0049231

the control character is missing for other spaces as well. (en, em, thin, thick, mid and hair space)

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2021-08-31 02:30 ewac New Issue
2021-08-31 02:30 ewac File Added: Screenshot 2021-08-30 175732.png
2021-08-31 02:30 ewac File Added: Screenshot 2021-08-30 175715.png
2021-08-31 03:28 utnik Severity minor => feature
2021-08-31 03:28 utnik Note Added: 0049231
2021-09-14 11:48 JLuc Relationship added related to 0009615
2021-09-14 11:48 JLuc Relationship added related to 0010301
2021-09-14 11:49 JLuc Relationship added child of 0004004