Issue 17513 - [calc] setting cell direction to RTL should align cell to the right
Summary: [calc] setting cell direction to RTL should align cell to the right
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Internationalization
Classification: Code
Component: BiDi (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC2
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: falko.tesch
QA Contact: issues@l10n
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Keywords:
: 37383 (view as issue list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 30158
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Reported: 2003-07-28 16:30 UTC by sforbes
Modified: 2004-11-25 21:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description sforbes 2003-07-28 16:30:14 UTC 
When setting cell direction as RTL, the cell contenst is still aligned to the
left. It should automaticly align to the right, as writer does.
Comment 1 sforbes 2003-07-28 16:31:19 UTC 
Created attachment 8079 [details]
testcase
Comment 2 Dieter.Loeschky 2003-08-20 11:22:41 UTC 
DL->NN: Would you please takeover?
Comment 3 niklas.nebel 2003-09-11 16:39:48 UTC 
Falko, we did it that way on purpose. Any comments?
Comment 4 falko.tesch 2003-09-26 15:19:42 UTC 
We had the requirement to set the cells attribute to RTL but not its
contents alignment.
A competitotr was chosen as an example for this. 
This feature was accepted and agreed from Sun Dubai.
Comment 5 falko.tesch 2003-10-15 09:15:27 UTC 
Closed
Comment 6 sforbes 2003-12-03 14:07:15 UTC 
* This bug has been mentioned in few of the press reviews of OOo.

IMO, we should consider re-opening
Comment 7 oc 2004-11-19 10:48:14 UTC 
*** Issue 37383 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 falko.tesch 2004-11-19 10:53:14 UTC 
Please add a justification or I will close it again.
Just saying "This bug has been mentioned in few of the press reviews of OOo."
isn't enough since the major stakeholder, Sun Dubai, agreed on the current
behaviour.
BTW, it is not a bug anyway.
Comment 9 falko.tesch 2004-11-19 10:53:40 UTC 
Please add a justification or I cannot re-open it.
Just saying "This bug has been mentioned in few of the press reviews of OOo."
isn't enough since the major stakeholder, Sun Dubai, agreed on the current
behaviour.
BTW, it is not a bug anyway.
Comment 10 sforbes 2004-11-19 13:09:37 UTC 
* In MS Excel, the default cell alignment matches the cell directionality (when
you change the directionality, the alignment changes with it).

* Many Hebrew language users have asked about this issue (many of them have a
language barrior to enter here).
Comment 11 sforbes 2004-11-19 13:12:13 UTC 
And, if you noticed, the bug marked duplicate to this was reported by ayaniger
from tkos, the company that is doing the l10n for Hebrew.

I don't think that tkos know less of the Hebrew market then Sun Dubai knows of
the Arabic market.
Comment 12 sforbes 2004-11-25 21:31:09 UTC 
In issue #30158, you can see many examples of excel files that do not open
correctly in calc, from reasons which are probably related to this issue.