Support for ZWNJ

Bug #168673 reported by Salmasian
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Zero Width Non Joiner (Unicode 200C) is a character commonly used in Farsi
language. It is like a space character, but with a width of zero pixels.
InkScape, by its latest stable Win32 version (0.45) does not support this
character in the text. It is replaced with a full space character, as you
type it or paste it from elsewhere.

I have not tested this on Linux version myself, but a friend says it
supports the ZWNJ character in Linux environment.

As many of the competting softwares (including Corel Draw) have troubles
with ZWNJ character (they crash when it is inserted or simply replace it
with a full space), InkScape can become the first vector drawing tool
having this bug resolved.

In case of needs for further information or examples, you may email me:
salmasian at users.sourceforge.net

Thank you in advance

Tags: text ui win32
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Amphi-users (amphi-users) wrote :

Originator: NO

Does zero-width joiner (ZWJ) work as intended?

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Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_joiner

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Bug Importer (bug-importer) wrote :

It has its "JOINER" effect (changes the form of the glyph preceding it)
but it still shows like a full space after the previous glyph. This is
independent of the font used. (Same for ZENJ)

nightrow (jb-benoit)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: text
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Karol Stasiak (stasiu88) wrote :

The issue still exists in 0.48.4 r9939, in all fonts, for both ZWNJ and ZWJ.

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jazzynico (jazzynico) wrote :

Reproduced on WIndows XP, Inkscape 0.48.5.
Not reproduced with trunk revision 13556 (see attachment).

To be confirmed with other operating systems.

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HSN6 (hsn6) wrote :

The issue still exists in Inkscape 0.92.2 2405546, 2018-03-11 on Manjaro Linux 17.1.12

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