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From: ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard bug
Message-ID: <307@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 22:32:50 EST
Article-I.D.: PT.307
Posted: Wed Nov  4 22:32:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 00:42:44 EST
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Keywords: Hypercard, bug, German, selection

Having, for the first time, a need to use German letters I discovered an
annoying bug in the double-click selection routine-- the German "ss" letter
(it looks like "B" and is generated by Option-s) is considered to be
whitespace! So a word like grossen (that is, groBen) ends up being selected
as either gro or en, depending on which end of the word you double-click.
Umlauted letters, on the other hand, are selected normally. 

Another text/whitespace problem is the strange convention of considering
puncuation as whitespace. Try resizing a field with parens or quotes, which
get detatched from words that are bumped to the next line. ...maybe I didn't
WANT to put in those extra carriage returns! (Or, is this a Quickdraw or Font
manager problem?) Mmmm. --Nick