Issue 79777 - A parenthesis is displayed in wrong direction when placed between Latin words
Summary: A parenthesis is displayed in wrong direction when placed between Latin words
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 18024
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.2.1
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: frank.meies
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Blocks: 96765
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Reported: 2007-07-19 09:40 UTC by hamidi
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: FEATURE
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Description hamidi 2007-07-19 09:40:27 UTC 
In situations that we have a right-to-left Persian-English text this issue
arises. If a left or right parenthesis is placed between two English words it is
reversed. 

To test this issue do following steps:

1- Create a new page in writer when language is selected as Persian.
2- Set text direction right-to-left.
3- Enter word "WWW". (without quotations)
4- Enter a right parenthesis, i.e. ")". (without quotations)
5- Enter phrase "World Wide Web". (without quotations)
6- Enter a left parenthesis, i.e. "(". (without quotations)

Expected result:
"WWW" in right side, in left a right parenthesis, then in left "World Wide Web",
then after a left parenthesis.

Observed result:
"World Wide Web" in right side, in left after, a right parenthesis, then in left
"WWW", then a right parenthesis.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2007-07-19 10:25:10 UTC 
Reassigned to SBA.
Comment 2 farzaneh 2007-07-21 14:32:06 UTC 
The issue described here is normal Unicode bidirectional beavior. The opening
parenthesis can sometimes appear as the mirrored glyph ")" according to the
parity of the text resolve level.


But I agree with you that OOo should override the Unicode bidi algorithm to give
the user a more intuitive experience (without the need for directional
formatting characters.) The user's keyboard settings should be recorded as text
is entered. This is what MS Word does to determin what the user expects to see
when he inputs text.


This is a feature request rather than a defect.
Comment 3 avagula 2007-07-21 14:46:28 UTC 
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Comment 4 avagula 2007-07-21 14:47:41 UTC 
*** Issue 79776 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 stefan.baltzer 2007-09-26 15:29:42 UTC 
SBA->FME: To me, this looks like another duplicate of issue 18024.
Comment 6 stefan.baltzer 2007-09-26 15:31:18 UTC 
SBA->FME: If you agree, please close as such.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 18024 ***
Comment 7 frank.meies 2007-11-18 08:09:44 UTC 
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