Issue 51020

Summary: Arabic-Hindi numerals according to context
Product: Internationalization Reporter: ychaddad <chaddadun>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: don.troodon, issues, karl.hong
Version: OOo 2.0Keywords: oooqa
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N04/432/00/doc/N0443200.DOC?OpenElement
Issue Type: FEATURE Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

Description ychaddad 2005-06-20 22:05:05 UTC 
It is crucial for Arabic users to be able to write both Hindi and Arabic
numerals in the same document. It is essential to add a feature in the General
Options of Complex Text Layout, that allows numerals to be displayed according
to the context. United Nations documents (see link above and compare numerals
wile opening the docmument in MS Word and Writer) are examples of such
situations. Inside an Arabic document, numerals should be in Hindi, while other
numerals referring to English symbols or codes should be in Arabic numerals. A
few UN Organizations are now migrating to Linux. This feature will prevent many
others, including the United Nations Secretariat, from migrating to linux or
open source software. This issue should also be considered in connection with
other issues such as adding a list of auto-numbering according to the system
used in International Organizations (which I can provide upon request), as well
as the possibility of copying Arabic numerals from an English text and pasting
them in Hindi numerals in an Arabic document and vice-versa.
Thanks for your time and effort.
Yasser Chaddad
Comment 1 ulf.stroehler 2005-06-21 10:20:00 UTC 
Falko, Karl can you pls. comment on this feature request.
Thx, Ulf.
Comment 2 falko.tesch 2005-10-20 15:47:58 UTC 
FT: Targeted, priorised and re-assigned to default feature request owner.
Comment 3 troodon 2008-04-04 21:33:08 UTC 
This seems to me as a duplicate of issue 51020.
Comment 4 ace_dent 2008-05-13 23:42:54 UTC 
This is currently logged against the dummy '*TESTproduct' component? Please
update with appropriate component.

Regards
Andrew

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Comment 5 troodon 2008-05-14 19:48:14 UTC 
In desc4 I meant this is a dupe of issue 22396.