Issue 107935 - RTL-only cells should be displayed as RTL
Summary: RTL-only cells should be displayed as RTL
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.1.1
Hardware: Unknown All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2009-12-27 17:44 UTC by Dotan Cohen
Modified: 2013-08-26 08:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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test file created by MS Office user (17.00 KB, application/vnd.ms-excel)
2009-12-27 17:45 UTC, Dotan Cohen 		no flags Details
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Description Dotan Cohen 2009-12-27 17:44:29 UTC 
When a cell contains only RTL and neutral characters, the cell should always be
displayed as RTL.

Although I understand that a sheet can be configured as RTL and this issue is
then solved (actually the right way to do it), MS Excel will display a cell as
RTL if it contains only RTL and neutral characters, even if the sheet is LTR.
Therefore MS Excel users do not format their sheets as RTL, and these documents
look "wrong" in OOo. Therefore, there is argument to have this behaviour only in
.xls documents.
Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2009-12-27 17:45:38 UTC 
Created attachment 66838 [details]
test file created by MS Office user
Comment 2 haggai_e 2009-12-28 08:47:07 UTC 
I'm sorry, but I can't seem to reproduce this bug on OpenOffice 3.1.1.
First of all, the attached file's sheet is opened RTL. Even when changing the
sheet's directionality, the cells directionality remains correct.

The only thing that looks wrong is the alignment of the cells, which is always
to the left, Instead of to the right. Is that what this bug is about?
Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2010-01-01 13:37:20 UTC 
The cells are not aligned left, they are LTR. The difference is that the
punctuation is on the right of the text, not the left.
Comment 4 Edwin Sharp 2013-08-26 08:12:38 UTC 
text is left aligned.

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