On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 05:32:01PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 03:41:20PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > > On 2017-03-18, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 03:06:09PM +0100, Guillaume Munch wrote: > > > > ... > > > > >> > I think we have to make do with the ugly zero-space inset. > > > > >> Or special/invisible unicode characters could be made visible by changing > > >> the character before painting. > > > > > However, this is going to be an issue only when exporting a document > > > to previous versions and editing it with that version. So, future > > > possible workarounds are not going to help. > > > > > It would not be an issue if that character could be searched for, but > > > this is not possible either. > > > > How did you test this? > > I could find a text with ZWSP, if I inserted the ZWSP into the search box > > from Insert>Special Char>Symbols. > > I mean when searching for a single ZWSP. The "simple" search does not > work because the find next button is not activated,
This is strange. I found out that copying a ZWSP from the lyx window to the "simple" search box does not work, but copying it from the Special Character Symbols (or from an external source) does work. So, it can be actually searched for and thus I am going to commit the corresponding patch. -- Enrico
