Bug 1571344

Summary:	gedit selects "ss" if it shall select "ß"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	customercare
Component:	gedit	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	28	CC:	alexl, john.j5live, mclasen, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann
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Description customercare 2018-04-24 14:55:37 UTC

Description of problem:

The search and replace function of gedit is buggy, due to a misunderstood concept of the german language.

The rule in question:

IF a charset is unable to display/use "ß" ( sz ), the letter "ß" can be translated to "ss". 

This is only valid in ASCII and not valid i.e. with iso-8859-1,iso-8859-15, de-latin1, utf8 etc. because those charsets have a "ß" symbol.

O== Problem here

Example:

..
<div class=upline>Ma&szlig;nahmen zur Sicherung des Datenschutzniveaus</div>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Die Konzepte zur Absicherung der Server, PCs werden regelm&auml;ßig &uuml;berdacht, sobald neue Techniken oder Sicherheitsl&uuml;cken bekannt werden.</li>
..

If i now use the search and replace function to find "ß" and replace it with the html entity "&szlig;", it also selects "ss" like in "class=upline" and replaces it with "&szlig;" , resulting in a ******** big chaos. 

to put it simple :

A) the "ss-replacement" rule does only apply to very old charsets without a "ß" letter.
B) the autotranslation of "ss" -> "ß" in any case is wrong, because "ss" is a valid construct in german and other languages and is used in many words without ever having a relationship with "ß". (As "ß" is correctly spelled "sz" and not "ss", which makes the entire conversion rule wrong in my eyes, but thats a different story some german linguists have to tell )


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.22.1

Notes:

All plugins of gedit have been disabled, so it's a build in functionality.

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