State of CJK issues of LibreOffice, 2018 edition

State of CJK
issues of
LibreOffice,
2018 edition
Shinji Enoki
shinji.enoki@gmail.com
TIRANA | 27 Sept. 2018

Agenda
●
About the CJK features &
issues
●
CJK issue status
●
Next challenge for the CJK
issues

Who am I?
● Shinji Enoki ( 榎真治 )
● A member of LibreOffice Japanese Team(2011-)
● A member of The Document Foundation (2014-)
● Activity: organizing events, grows community, sometimes
QA
● Other community:
– Chairperson of Japan UNIX Society
– A member of Kyoto OpenData Community
– A staff of KANSAI OPEN SOURCE

What are CJK issues / bugs
● CJK is an abbreviation for Chinese-Japanese-
Korean
● LibreOffice has many language-specific features
and issues, CJK issue is one of them.
● CJK issues happen when used in CJK's
environment
– A function of CJK is broken
– A bug occurs only with the CJK environment

The Document Foundation:
Next Decade Manifesto
‘’To support the preservation of mother tongue by
encouraging people to translate,document,
support, and promote our office productivity tools
in their mother tongue’’
● I think these “Our Values” are very good

Why do CJK people need to work
CJK bugs?
●
Many LibreOffice developers are European
people
● It is hard to notice / understand CJK bug unless
it is from people of CJK
● Then, It is very important for CJK users to
report / reproduce CJK bugs

CJK Meta issues
● CJK bugs are tracked META issues
– Bug 83066(CJK) - [META] issues

Check [META] CJK issues
● Open: Including 6 meta bugs “Text Grid “, “ruby”,
“CJK-Japanese” and othe (not meta: 67)
● Some cases are not added to CJK META issues
due to CJK related buga
2017/10 2018/9
Depends on:(All) 135 168
Open 59 73
Close 76 95

● Mark Hung is fixing some CJK issues
● Thanks Mark!

CJK features
● In common with CJK
1.using Kanji (Chinese characters)
2.vertical writing
3.phonetic guides (ruby)
● Chinese characters are also different in Simplified Chinese
(Mainland China), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong
Kong) and Kanji (Japanese)
● Even with common functions, usage methods are not
always the same
– Vertical writing

Vertical writing
● Exsample: Witer page stype
– Menu [Format] – [Page...]
– [Page] tab

Features specific to Japanese
● Line breaking rules : ” ”禁則処理 Kinsokushori
● [Paragraph style]-[Japanese appearance] tab

line adjustment by hanging
punctuation
https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/ja/

LibreOffice Brno 2016 Conference Presentation 18
Kanji variant is a Kanji character
with the same meaning but by
different shape.
崎﨑埼
碕嵜
External Character ( 異体字 )
& Kanji variants

LibreOffice Brno 2016 Conference Presentation 19
IVS
Ideographic Variation
Sequence/Selector
In Japan, using a mechanism called
IVS to make it easier to deal with a
Kanji variant.
IVS is combine the characters,
as one of the character.
Variation
Sequence
Unicode character

http://mojikiban.ipa.go.jp/1292.html

IVS using case bug#113481
● Deleting the character behind two same IVS
characters with Backspace will result in another
character
● Demo

IVS using case bug#113481
(2)
● I explained this bug at LibreOffice conference
2017
● Mark Hung created a patch
● 6.1 : FIXED

Bug#35301: Allow vertical ruby
text in the Asian phonetic guide

Bug#35301 (2)
● LibreOffice 6.1 can become on the right side
with ruby in horizontal writing

Bug 115258 - FILESAVE: text with Asian
phonetic guide (ruby) disappear after save to
docx and reopened
● Text with Asian phonetic guide (ruby)
disappears after saving as “docx” and then
reopening
● 6.1 : FIXED

Multilingual issues that matter even
at CJK
● Multilingual problem that becomes a problem with
CJK
● In some time zone Date is shifted: (Already fixed)
● Bug 59850 - EDITING: typed date decreased one
day
● Bug 63230 - Calc: Date decreased by 1
depending on Timezone

Bug 118849 - Impress hang when
input multibyte character.
● On Japanese Input mode. Select multiple lines,
Input multibyte character, hang.
● Only Linux
● 6.0.5 reproduced, 6.1 not reproduc
● demo

Meta issue for each CJK
language
● [META] Japanese language-specific CJK issues
● https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113195
● [META] Traditional Chinese (zh_TW, zh_HK)
– https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113193
● [META] Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
– https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113194
● But, it is not used now

Checking is difficult
● It is difficult to understand the meaning
● Test case, sample file is not enough
● I do not understand when I read the comment
to the end

Next task as I think
● 1st: Re-make or arrange the summary and test
cases in Bugzilla
– Against high risk and high probability of regression
● 2nd: CJK Meta issue and list maintenance
● 3rd: Finding critical bugs that users don't
immediately notice

Telegram: LibreOffice CJK
● If you want contribute to report / resolving CJK
bug, please join this channel
● https://web.telegram.org/#/im?
p=s1119055114_15674911573967734518

Conclusion
● Sharing the Unique functions and issues about
CJK with a lot of members
● I’d like to work to solve issues with our
Japanese members
● wanting to progress organization of Bugzilla
such as CJK issue

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