Issue 100799 - numerals in bilingual documents
Summary: numerals in bilingual documents
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: All Windows, all
: P3 Minor (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
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Reported: 2009-04-02 18:16 UTC by sabidi
Modified: 2014-04-11 08:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Latest Confirmation in: 4.1.0-dev
Developer Difficulty: ---

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2009-04-02 19:13 UTC, sabidi 		no flags Details
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Description sabidi 2009-04-02 18:16:39 UTC 
In a bilingual document with, for example, English and Arabic, you can either
have the Hindi or the Arabic numerals displayed for all the text.  It would be
good to be able to have the English portion use Arabic numerals and the Arabic
portion use Hindi numerals by allowing the choice of numeral type to be
according to the context rather than applying to the whole document.
Comment 1 eric.savary 2009-04-02 18:45:16 UTC 
Please attach a sample document.

Also describe the "user case".
I humbly don't understand the real case showing:

1. some text in Latin
2. some text in Latin
some text in Arabic .<Arabic 3>
some text in Arabic .<Arabic 4>
6. some text in Latin
Comment 2 eric.savary 2009-04-02 18:49:46 UTC 
Please also metion which OOo version you are using.
Comment 3 sabidi 2009-04-02 19:13:04 UTC 
Created attachment 61367 [details]
sample doc
Comment 4 sabidi 2009-04-02 19:17:40 UTC 
The sample document has two lines of text, one in English and one in Arabic.
For the numerals, under Tools > Options > Language Settings > Complex Text
Layout, you can have the numerals set to Arabic, Hindi, or System.
If you set it to Arabic, the numbers in both the English and the Arabic line are
displayed the same.  The same applies to System.  If you set it to Hindi, the
numerals are displayed in the commonly used Arabic form in both the English and
the Arabic lines.
What I was suggesting was something like what Word does, where you have an
option to have the numbers displayed based on context--so that if you're typing
English, the English numbers will be used, and if you're typing in Arabic, the
Arabic form will be used.
Comment 5 eric.savary 2009-04-02 19:22:42 UTC 
Reassigned
Comment 6 Rob Weir 2013-02-02 02:59:14 UTC 
This Issue requires more information ('needmoreinfo'), but has not been updated
within the last year. Please provide feedback as requested and re-test with the the latest version of OpenOffice - the problem(s) may already be addressed. 

You can download Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 from http://www.openoffice.org/download

Please report back the outcome of your testing, so this Issue may be closed or
progressed as necessary - otherwise the issue may be Resolved as Invalid in the
future.
Comment 7 Edwin Sharp 2014-04-11 08:36:07 UTC 
Confirmed with
AOO410m16(Build:9762)  -  Rev. 1585426
2014-04-07 10:29:13 (Mo, 07 Apr 2014)
Win 7