Last modified: 2012-10-29 18:09:48 UTC
In most web browsers and text editors double-clicking a word usually selects one word. In the Visual Editor this works for Latin words, but not for words in other scripts - i tried: * Russian: Мой дядя самых честных правил * Devanagari: कोणीही घडवू शकेल असा हा मुक्त ज्ञानकोश आहे * Georgian: რომლის განმარტებითაც იგი ბავშვების In all cases double-clicking a word selected the whole sentence. I didn't check the code, but my guess is that the word boundary algorithm only understand the Latin script.
Bug 33128 may be related.
The word-boundary detection is done using a regular expression, currently it's: /([ \-\t\r\n\f])/g We will need this to be more sophisticated for different scripts, and also need some help from people more familiar with how word breaks can be programmatically detected in these scripts.
I am curious - is it really impossible to use the host browser's word-boundary algorithm? Or better yet, to use the host browser's behavior for double-clicking a word? Adding Santhosh, who may have advanced knowledge about word boundaries.
(In reply to comment #2) > We will need this to be more sophisticated for different scripts, and also need > some help from people more familiar with how word breaks can be > programmatically detected in these scripts. I wish that could be implemented on Chinese as well (just wish). Few softwares (but there're still some even open-source ones) can do this since there's no clear boundary.
Fixed in new version of VE through using native implementation (which is much easier than re-implementing, as discussed!).
Mass-moving old VisualEditor tickets to the VE product. Search for this message to mass-delete bugmail.
Noting bugs closed in the 2012-10-15 release.
