Issue 125196

Summary: SOFT HYPHEN (optional hyphen) cannot be found by regular expression and Unicode code point
Product: General Reporter: Regina Henschel <rb.henschel>
Component: uiAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
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Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 CC: jes
Version: 4.1.0   
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Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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Description Regina Henschel 2014-07-03 17:31:39 UTC 
Enable "Field shading" in menu View, so that the SOFT HYPHEN will become visible.

Open special character dialog and insert the whole row ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬ ­®¯°. It contains the character SOFT HYPHEN between ¬ and ®  (not here but in your document).

Open Find&Replace dialog, click on "More Options" and enable "Regular Expression".

Search for either of these
\u00ad
\x{00ad}
\xad
\0255

It should find the SOFT HYPHEN but does not.

Try the same with
\u00ae
\x{00ae}
\xae
\0256

It will find the character ® without problems. Thus the regex engine itself works, but not for SOFT HYPHEN.
Comment 1 Joe Smith 2014-07-18 20:13:35 UTC 
Tested OpenOffice 4.1.1  411m2(Build:9771) on Fedora Linux

I see the same problem.

None of these match it either:
. (any character)
\W (any non-word character)
\p{Cf} (Unicode property/category Other, Control)

It does work to set Options / Regular expressions: OFF and enter the character directly (by code AD) in the "Search for" box.