Issue 49653

Summary: Arabic fonts do not display correctly like English font when we want to choose a font
Product: Writer Reporter: zayed2001 <zayed.alsaidi>
Component: viewingAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: UNCONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: arielch, issues, msakallah
Version: OOo 2.0 BetaKeywords: Arabic, needhelp
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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Description Flags
OOo does not display arabic fonts correctly
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the right display
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Font Drop Down NOT Displaying Arabic in OOO 3.3
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Font Drop Down NOT Displaying Arabic in OOO 3.4.1
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Font Drop Down Displaying Arabic in Microsoft Office Word 2010
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Font Drop Down Displaying Arabic in LibreOffice 3.6.3.2 Writer none

Description zayed2001 2005-05-21 18:16:09 UTC
Arabic fonts do not display correctly like English font when we want to choose a
 font for format a text.
attached pictures show what I mean. first one compare between Arabic fonts and
English font in OOo 2.0 Beta. The second one shows the correct display as in the
MS Office.
Comment 1 zayed2001 2005-05-21 18:19:09 UTC
Created attachment 26410 [details]
OOo does not display arabic fonts correctly
Comment 2 zayed2001 2005-05-21 18:20:51 UTC
Created attachment 26411 [details]
the right display
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2005-05-22 12:00:48 UTC
Reassigned to US.
Comment 4 ulf.stroehler 2005-05-30 13:30:25 UTC
*** Issue 49126 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 ulf.stroehler 2005-06-06 15:14:08 UTC
Forwarding to "Requirements".
Comment 6 ace_dent 2008-05-16 00:23:13 UTC
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised is currently assigned to 'Requirements' pending review, but
has not been updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with
one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been
addressed. Either use the recent stable version:
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing):
http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
 
Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as
necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also
wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have
advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi
 
Many thanks,
Andrew
 
Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of:
~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~
http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
Comment 7 zayed2001 2009-01-26 17:18:05 UTC
Oh my GOD !! 

nothing change since 2005 till now ! I can confirm this issue is still in the
DEV300_m39. 
Comment 8 Mohanned Sakallah 2013-02-11 01:52:45 UTC
I was able to confirm and duplicate this behavior on my Windows 7 system using two different version of OOO Writer (3.3 and 3.4.1), and compared results to other competing products (MS Office Word, and LibreOffice Writer).

Steps taken to reproduce:
1. Install Arabic Language for Windows
2. Uninstall any previous version of OpenOffice
3. Install the test version of OpenOffice
4. Launch OpenOffice Writer
5. Click Font Drop down from menu
6. Scroll down to find Arabic font (i.e Traditional Arabic)
7. Confirm that font drop down preview does not display font preview for selected font

I have attached various screenshots of the issue under both versions of OpenOffice as well as the competing product demonstrating where the issue is not there.

The screenshots include the "About" of each product, and I made sure I selected the font to make it easy to identify.
Comment 9 Mohanned Sakallah 2013-02-11 01:54:10 UTC
Created attachment 80252 [details]
Font Drop Down NOT Displaying Arabic in OOO 3.3
Comment 10 Mohanned Sakallah 2013-02-11 01:55:49 UTC
Created attachment 80253 [details]
Font Drop Down NOT Displaying Arabic in OOO 3.4.1
Comment 11 Mohanned Sakallah 2013-02-11 01:57:02 UTC
Created attachment 80254 [details]
Font Drop Down Displaying Arabic in Microsoft Office Word 2010
Comment 12 Mohanned Sakallah 2013-02-11 01:58:11 UTC
Created attachment 80255 [details]
Font Drop Down Displaying Arabic in LibreOffice 3.6.3.2 Writer