https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393740
Bug ID: 393740
Summary: Title bar doesn’t handle soft hyphens – rendered as
spaces
Product: kwin
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: decorations
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: k...@huftis.org
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 112352
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Screenshot showing soft hyphen displayed as a space
[I’m not sure if this is the right component, or even product, so feel free to
reassign.]
Observed behaviour:
If the text in the title bar contains a soft hyphen (i.e. Unicode character
U+00AD), this is displayed as a space.
Expected behaviour:
The soft hyphen should be invisible.
(A soft hyphen should always be invisible unless it word is broken over two
lines, where it magically turns into an ordinary hyphen).
Use case:
In our (Norwegian Nynorsk) translation of the system settings modules, we have
many long (compound) words, and we use soft hyphens to ensure that module names
can be displayed properly, i.e. hyphenated over several lines. For example, the
module name ‘Skrivebordseffektar’ (‘Desktop Effects’) has a soft hyphen
between ‘Skrivebords’ and ‘effektar’, ensuring that it is displayed as
Skrivebords-
effektar
if the word needs to be broken over two lines. This works very well. But the
module name is also shown in the title bar, and there the soft hyphen seems to
be replaced by a space, ‘Skrivebords effektar’, which is wrong.
I’ll attach a screenshot showing the problem.
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