PM88863: Certain words which contain special characters in them (example:Soft Hypen) cannot be removed from DOORS Client Dictionary

Rational DOORS and Rational DOORS Web Access 9.5.2
Rational DOORS and DOORS Web Access Fix Pack 1 (9.5.2.1) for 9.5.2
Rational DOORS Fix Pack 2 (9.5.2.2) for 9.5.2

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Certain words which contain special characters in them (example:
  Soft Hyphen whose character code is 173) cannot be removed from
  DOORS Client Dictionary.
  
  Attempts to remove words from client dictionary appears to
  remove the item from the list (it looks like the words are
  removed after clicking the 'Remove selected word' button)
  
  However if you reopen client dictionary window, the removed
  words are back to the list. It looks like some words containing
  hyphens, apostrophes, or super-scripts can not be removed with
  DOORS Dictionary.
  
  Sample steps to reproduce:
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  Try putting this string into a DOORS object and spell checking
  it.
  string s = charOf(49) charOf(49) charOf(50) charOf(45)
  charOf(173) charOf(98) charOf(105) charOf(116) ''
  
  It should detect '112-bit' as misspelled.  Use the 'Add' button
  to add to the client dictionary. Check the client dictionary and
  see if the character codes there
  match the string.  Then try to delete it.   No error occurs, but
  the entry is not deleted.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  The "remove selected word" is in fact removing the word and
  storing the removed word in cache is not working as
  expected, especially when it has special like that. That
  brings back the word again.
  

Problem conclusion

• The function is corrected such that, cache will store the
  same removed word with it and thus the removed word will not
  appear when opened the dictionary again.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TLOGIC DOORS

• Fixed component ID

  5724V61DR

Applicable component levels

• R940 PSN

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