Hi Eran,
Hebrew OOo has already fixed the hyphen to have Unicode 4.01 bidi
properties. Try it.
Alan
Eran Tromer wrote:
Hi,
[snip]
This particular case (HebrewLetter+HyphenMinus+Digit) is probably the
most common bidi issue for both text entry and importing. It will be
fixed by updating OpenOffice's bidi properties to comply with Unicode
4.01 (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33903).
This bug is unfixed and targeted "OOo Later", which I think is a grave
error. The current situation causes a buildup of broken documents where
people typed
"��20-"
instead of
"��-20"
to produce the desired rendering (no, sorry, no one uses RLM). When the
bug is fixed, which eventually it must be, almost every Hebrew document
written under OpenOffice will be broken.
Many of us remember the "joy" when Microsoft had exactly this issue in
Office, so it strikes me as odd that OpenOffice.org is going the same
painful route.
The only way to minimize the damage is to fix this ASAP. I would go as
far as suggesting that the Hebrew OOo should fix this even if mainline
keeps ignoring the current Unicode standard.
Eran
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