Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 73220
Cursor positioning with RTL text-direction is not correct
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:44:35 UTC
The cursor position seems to be slightly off when text direction is RTL. In the attached screenshots, there are two lines of text. The first line has text with LTR text direction, and the cursor is clearly to the right of the period. The second line has the same text with RTL text direction, and the cursor completely covers the period. This has led to some confusion about whether the cursor position is "really" before the period or after.
Created attachment 41960 [details] Cursor on first line, LTR text direction - position is clear
Created attachment 41961 [details] Cursor on second line, RTL text direction - position is not clear
Created attachment 41962 [details] bugdoc
Created attachment 41963 [details] Example from Linux - cursor is directly over period in RTL
Reassigned to SBA.
SBA->FME: As discussed, it looks font dependant. It can be seen with characters in western Text, too. - Insert some Text, say "Tool. Tonnnn. Tommmm. And. Jerry." - Move cursor around the periods with the arrow keys - Change text direction to RTL - Move cursor as above and compare -> In RTL-Text direction, the cursor lies over "bigger" parts of the characters. On my Win2000, it is good to be seen with Font "Arial" and the letters n, l and d.
move to target 3.x according http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Target_3x