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Wordbreak detection is faulty for selection starting just down-page of a single character
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Steps to reproduce:

1.Open a page with VE
2.Place a cursor after a text like "sub-heading 1"
3.Open the link inspector

Observe that the character 1 is not getting selected and the link inspector is opening at the end of the line

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[BREAKING CHANGE] Use Unicode character class to calculate word expansionsVisualEditor/VisualEditormaster+101 -29
Customize query in gerrit

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Ryasmeen created this task.Dec 10 2014, 10:39 PM
Ryasmeen assigned this task to Esanders.
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Ryasmeen added a project: VisualEditor.Dec 10 2014, 11:10 PM
Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Dec 11 2014, 7:05 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to External and Administrivia on the VisualEditor board.
Mooeypoo added a project: Utilities-UnicodeJS.Jan 9 2015, 11:12 PM
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I spoke to David about this issue, there is definitely something off about how we account for word boundary and wordbreaks.

Mooeypoo added a subscriber: dchan.Jan 9 2015, 11:13 PM
Jdforrester-WMF mentioned this in T86399: Wordbreak detection is faulty for selection starting just up-page of a link annotation.Jan 10 2015, 3:40 AM
Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Placing the cursor at the end of a character and clicking on link inspector icon does not select that character to Wordbreak detection is faulty for selection starting just down-page of a single character.Jan 10 2015, 3:42 AM
Jdforrester-WMF reassigned this task from Esanders to dchan.Jan 15 2015, 1:24 AM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from External and Administrivia to Blocked on the VisualEditor board.
Esanders added a comment.Jan 15 2015, 4:42 PM

The word break calculation is correct:

Subheading1

But our word expansion logic avoids wrapping single length ranges due to the following cases:

DoubleSpace
中國人
Jdforrester-WMF subscribed.Feb 5 2015, 2:27 AM

UnicodeJS change was released in v0.1.3, which is now in VisualEditor core master following https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/188729 – what's next?

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor 2014/15 Q3 blockers.Feb 10 2015, 8:40 PM
Jdforrester-WMF edited a custom field.Feb 10 2015, 9:04 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Nominated to Accepted on the VisualEditor 2014/15 Q3 blockers board.Feb 11 2015, 8:25 PM
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Jdforrester-WMF raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Mar 18 2015, 1:11 AM
gerritbot subscribed.Mar 18 2015, 5:05 PM

Change 197661 had a related patch set uploaded (by Divec):
WIP: BREAKING CHANGE: Use unicode character class to calculate word expansions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/197661

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 18 2015, 5:05 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Mar 19 2015, 1:16 AM

Change 197661 merged by jenkins-bot:
[BREAKING CHANGE] Use Unicode character class to calculate word expansions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/197661

Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Mar 19 2015, 1:24 AM
Jdforrester-WMF edited projects, added WMF-deploy-2015-03-25_(1.25wmf23); removed Patch-For-Review.
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Accepted to Done on the VisualEditor 2014/15 Q3 blockers board.Mar 19 2015, 1:43 AM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Blocked to FY 18-19 Q3/Q4 on the VisualEditor board.Mar 20 2015, 11:29 PM
dchan mentioned this in rGVED80d68eabd064: [BREAKING CHANGE] Use Unicode character class to calculate word expansions.Mar 23 2015, 3:53 PM
Ryasmeen added a comment.Mar 26 2015, 12:39 AM

Verified the fix in Betalabs and test2

Ryasmeen added a project: Verified-in-Phase0.Mar 26 2015, 12:40 AM
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