https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33302
Roman Eisele <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Summary|FILEOPEN RTL" brackets " |FILEOPEN/EDITING RTL text: |(...)" inverted to " )...(" |parentheses and brackets | |"(...) [...]" inverted to | |")...( ]...[" with some | |fonts --- Comment #15 from Roman Eisele <[email protected]> 2012-08-13 10:39:36 UTC --- (In reply to comment #14) > to replicate the bug : > 1. open Libreoffice . > 2. start a new document . > 3. write something (in hebrew of course) and try to put brackets around (while > still in hebrew) . > 4. you will see that the brackets are facing the opposite direction that they > should be facing. Following these steps, I can REPRODUCE this bug with LibreOffice 3.6.0.4 (Build ID: 932b512), German UI, on MacOS X 10.6.8 (Intel). I have to confess that reproducing this bug is a bit hard for people who don’t speak/write Hebrew. First, in order to type some Hebrew, you have (a) to activate Complex Text Layout (CTL) in the LibO preferences; (b) to activate the Hebrew keyboard/input in the MacOS X System Preferences and to switch to it via the keyboard/input menu; (c) to show the keyboard preview window in order to find the ( ) keys which in Hebrew are at different places than in English, German, etc. Secondly, it is hard to type a foreign script without knowing it ;-) This may explain why this bug did not receive much attention ... sorry! But as far as I can tell, it does not make any difference if you type "real" Hebrew (I tried the first words of book Genesis) or just nonsense in Hebrew glyphs: the parentheses are facing the opposite direction in both cases! > This happens in ALL the application that are part of Libreoffice. Confirmed; I tried Writer, Calc, and Impress: IMHO no difference. > The issue is probably related to fonts, because if you use the raanana font > with hebrew the issue doesn't occur. A very good observation! If I play around with the sample file (attachment 42258), the parentheses are right if I change the font to -- Raanana -- Lucida Grande -- New Peninim MT -- Arial Hebrew -- Corsiva Hebrew But the parentheses look wrong if I change the font to -- Times New Roman -- Arial Unicode MS (default font!) -- Linux Libertine G -- Linux Libertine O I don't know what exactly makes the difference, but I suspect that the parentheses got rendered correctly with fonts which are either explictely Hebrew fonts (and probably known to LibreOffice as that): Raanana, New Peninim MT, Arial Hebrew, and Corsiva Hebrew), or are MacOS X System fonts including Hebrew (Lucida Grande). The other fonts (Times New Roman, Arial Unicode MS, Linux Libertine G/O) do really contain Hebrew glyphs, but maybe they are not known as valid Hebrew fonts to LibO? A final remark: We are talking about parentheses (parens: '(' ')'), not about brackets, as the screenshot and the sample file confirm. But brackets '[' ']' suffer from exactly the same problem, too! They are exchanged (flipped horizontally) just like the parentheses. -> Adjusted the bug summary. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
