Issue 67579 - Support specific mathematical Unicode characters in numbers
Summary: Support specific mathematical Unicode characters in numbers
Status: ACCEPTED
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Product: utilities
Classification: Unclassified
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.3
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: OOo 3.x
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2006-07-19 17:30 UTC by ooo
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:44 UTC (History)
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Description ooo 2006-07-19 17:30:22 UTC 
The following Unicode characters denoting unary operators in numerical context
are not recognized during parsing of numbers and result in textual content instead:

   Octal  Decimal      Hex        HTML    Character   Unicode
   03152     1642    0x66A     ٪    "Ùª"         ARABIC PERCENT SIGN
  021022     8722   0x2212     −    "−"         MINUS SIGN
 0177405    65285   0xFF05    ％    "ï¼…"         FULLWIDTH PERCENT SIGN
 0177413    65291   0xFF0B    ＋    "＋"         FULLWIDTH PLUS SIGN
 0177415    65293   0xFF0D    －    "ï¼"         FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS

The fullwidth hyphen-minus because it is the equivalent of
     055       45     0x2D       -    "-"         HYPHEN-MINUS
which is the ordinary ASCII minus sign. The fullwidth character may be used in
CJK languages.

However,
    0255      173     0xAD       ­    "­"         SOFT HYPHEN
should not be included in this list, its use as a minus sign is wrong.
Comment 1 ooo 2006-07-19 17:31:07 UTC 
Accepted.
Comment 2 Mathias_Bauer 2007-12-04 14:47:47 UTC 
according to release status meeting -> target 3.x
Comment 3 Joe Smith 2014-10-30 18:02:58 UTC 
Related:
Issue 68326 (Writer)
Accept alternate characters as minus sign for number recognition and calculation
Comment 4 Marcus 2017-05-20 10:44:18 UTC 
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".