This relates to Keyman’s enforcement of shifter-coeung order in Khmer script, in relation to spell checking in Paratext. The intended behavior is that whenever shifter ៉ or ៊ is followed by combiner ្ followed by a consonant, the shifter moves to the end (really the earlier instance is deleted and a new instance added). This works just fine – except in Paratext.
In Paratext, if “Display Spelling Errors” is turned on, and if I’m typing a bit slowly, then after I’ve typed a consonant followed by the shifter, Paratext identifies this as a spelling error (since there is no such word as just this consonant + shifter). PT sticks its squiggly underline in, while I’m typing the next character, the combiner, followed by the next consonant. At this point, the Keyman Enforcer-of-Order kicks in and tries to do the replacement, but instead of deleting the shifter from the wrong position, it simply adds another shifter after the second consonant. Here’s what it looks like:
I type: ឝ ៉ ្ ន
I get:
It type: ឞ ៊ ្ រ
I get:
If I’m typing fast enough, I can stay ahead of spell checker, but I can’t always type fast enough. Or I could turn off spell checker, but then what good does it do me?
This isn’t the first probablem I’ve encountered with Display Spelling Errors in Paratext. Two years ago I reported another issue in which focus is lost while typing a cross reference, if the squiggly shows up before I finish typing a valid reference. (PTXS-40048) The issue was “deemed minor.” Is this related? I’m reporting here instead of to Paratext since I suspect that this would be another “minor” issue.
(I can fix the problem with autocorrect, I think, but I’d rather not.)
