Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 25548
Document LTR in OO, RTL in Word
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:36 UTC
OOo 680m22 on windows 2003, MSWord 2003: the attached document displays RTL in word, but LTR in OOo (notice the punctuation placement). The funny thing is, that using the "reveal formatting" pnae in word, it doesn't seem to have RTL formmating at all. files attached
Created attachment 13188 [details] word doc
change cc of caolan->cmc
cmc->fme: I'd guess this is a difference in how writer and word handle sequences of "weak characters". Perhaps we default to the underlying paragraph direction, while word will search out the surrounding "non weak" characters. And spacing and punctunation are weak ? Adding some english letters between the hebrew letters and the spaces in word causes that block to jump to the same location as in writer. I don't think there is a filter related thing to fix, unless I'm missing something.
1. This looks like a Hebrew document. So why do the paragraphs have a LTR setting? Setting the correct paragraph direction in Word would result in a perfect import. 2. Nevertheless, the document with the LTR paragraph settings looks different in Word and Writer. The reason for this is the different handling of directional neutral characters. This makes this issue a duplicate of issue 18024. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 18024 ***
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