UTF-8 quotes not correctly managed
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- C
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Description
Distribution
Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
Package version
4.0.2
Frequency
Always
Bug description
Regular (ASCII) quotes (and double quotes) are correctly found. UTF-8 left and right quotes are NOT found, they should be considered "equivalent" to ASCII quotes. On the Windows site, this is the beahviour of Acrobat Reader.
Steps to reproduce
Open Xreader on a file e.g. written in Italian
CTRL-F
l'opzione
(only find the occurrences in which the "'" is in ASCII).
Expected behavior
Should find all the occurrence, no matter how the quote is written.
Additional information
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in Xreader using CTRL-F and the provided Italian example, checking searches with ASCII versus UTF-8 left and right quotes. No source file or test is named, so trace the document-search entry point and add coverage showing that equivalent quote forms all produce the expected occurrences.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- desktop, search
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100