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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Arabic Character Rotation Does Not Work (rtl text in ltr paragraph) | ||||||||||
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| Product: | Writer | Reporter: | meshcurrent <youssef.eldakar> | ||||||||
| Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||||||
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||||||
| Severity: | Trivial | ||||||||||
| Priority: | P4 | CC: | issues, kaplanlior, munzirtaha, pavel, ulf.stroehler, xslf | ||||||||
| Version: | OOo 1.1 | Keywords: | Arabic, CJK, oooqa | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | PC | ||||||||||
| OS: | Windows 2000 | ||||||||||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||||||
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||||||
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Description
meshcurrent
2003-11-30 13:34:34 UTC
are you using the latest version? The issure relates to 1.0.1 howevever, your comments refer to version 1.1 Please clarify this issue, as it would help. The issue relates to 1.1, but I did not find 1.1 as a selection in the form back when I entered the issue. I changed it now. WFM here with Hebrew OO 1.1 on Windows 2003 (with Arabic text pasted from http://www.arabynet.com , as I don't know to write Arabic). See attached screen shot Created attachment 12109 [details]
screen shot of arabic text in 90o
please also state what font you're using. I originally encountered this issue on the English version of OOo 1.1. I just tried the Arabic-localized version of OOo 1.0, and the rotation worked fine. Shouldn't I be able to normally enter and reformat Arabic text in any version of OOo, even though it's not Arabic-localized? You should be able to- just make sure that "enable ctl" is marked in the prefrences. In Tools / Options / Language Settings / Languages, I enabled Complex Text Layout (CTL), but I am still not able to rotate Arabic text in the non-Arabic- localized (English) version of OOo 1.1. I am still unable to repro this bug- added needmoreinfo keyword OO.o 1.1.0, English, under Mandrake Linux 9.2, keyboard layout set to Arabic.... Entered random characters (I know absolutely no Arabic, not even the letters...). Selected the text, right-click-->Character. Chose 90 degree rotation, OK. Text is now rotated.... I did notice an option in the dialog, "Fit to Line", but it seems to make no difference... May I ask what the default charset *at the OS level* is? I have set my system to utf8 throughout. That may make a difference, maybe not.... I apologize. I should've posted back earlier. This issue is in the context of Windows 2000 only. On Windows 2000, OO 1.1 English, I found that rotation of Arabic text works only when you enable CTL and change the text direction to RTL (right-to-left). Yet, on Windows 2000, OO 1.0 Arabic (which is the latest Arabic package available), rotation of Arabic text works all the time even when you leave the text direction to LTR (left-to- right). In other words, to reproduce this issue, as far as I can tell, one would have to: 1. Install Windows 2000. 2. Install OO 1.1 English. 3. Enable CTL. 4. Set text direction to LTR (left-to-right). 5. Type and rotate Arabic text (which should not work). I hope this clarifies the issue, and I really appreciate your concern! Thank you. JA->US: could you please have a look at this win2000 ctl + mixed ltr/rtl issue, please ? Reassigned to you FME: Character rotation of RTL text does only work in RTL paragraphs, LTR text can only be rotated in LTR paragraphs. In other words: Rotation does not work in text that has the opposite direction as its paragraph. That's a known limitation. I suggest to set this to 'Office Later'. JA: set to later The problem is named -> no need for the needmoreinfo keyword any more. As FME said "a known limitation" and let me add a personal note - a minor limitation also. We could leave this issue as it is, but to be honest, unless we don't touch this area due to other reasons, I don't see the chance that this will get fixed in a foreseeable time frame. Any other opinions? *** Issue 83053 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** it also happens for CJK Does this apply any more, as it's fixed in 2.3? Still valid, this is not fixed in 2.3 Ah, I see. But note that LTR text doesn't also rotate in RTL paragraph! Have a look at the screenshot. Created attachment 49362 [details]
LTR Text isn't rotated in RTL paragraph
Created attachment 49363 [details]
LTR Text isn't rotates fine in LTR paragraph
retarget to 3.1 Set target to OOo later. Rotating RTL text in a LTR paragraph (and vice versa) is not a very common use case. Don't you think this has been delayed for a long time now? The issue was filed in 2003 and still it isn't fixed. @okhayat: I'm sorry but the date an issue has been filed doesn't really make any difference. What's important is how the benefit relates to the resources which are required to fix an issue. Not fixing or shifting the target of an issue does not mean that we don't want to fix it, it simply means that there are more important things to fix. I hope you agree with me on this. I surely do agree with you. I'm just sad that most of the Arabic issues are delayed. @okhayat: Please have a look at issue 79434 which is a meta issue and lists a couple of "Arabic" issues that are targeted for OOo 3.1. I'm currently working on i60594, i22396, i28203, i89825 and i91465. So actually there's quite some "Arabic" issues that will be fixed in OOo 3.1. I hope this will cheer you up a bit ;-) See also a similar bug with Hebrew: #99446 |