** Attachment added: "kdesdk_4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.1.diff.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22885725/kdesdk_4.1.4-0ubuntu1%7Eintrepid1.1.diff.gz
** Description changed: - Binary package hint: kate-kde4 + *Below added by Jonathan Thomas* + Stable Release Update (SRU) infos: + -Impact: Text editing for RTL languages becomes difficult, see bug description below + -Addressed by: This bug has been addressed by adding an upstream patch included in KDE 4.2 that fixes this. + -Testcase: Install kate. Start kate. Copy the php code from the bug description and paste it in to kate + -Patch/regression potential: Small. The changes were part of the recent KDE 4.2 release and we have had no complaints yet. + ####################################################################### This is a request for a backport from trunk to 4.1.3 in ubuntu. The original bug is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178594 "Back in March someone (who shall remain un-named) added to kate a new function which would calculate the "best direction" of a paragraph by counting the LTR and RTL chars in that line. That is r788729: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kate/render/katerenderer.cpp?r1=772931&r2=788729 The last month I found a really ugly "bug" in it. Imagine this php code: function foo() { $a = "שלום עולם"; return $a; } Now paste it into kate and see what happens. This get funkier when the hebrew is inside lists or hashes. IMHO, this renders this "feature" useless - much more people will be using kate to code then to write "plain text". My proposal is detecting the paragraph direction using QString::isRightToLeft() and in 4.3 also provide a manual method for setting the direction of the paragraph. IMHO, this renders kate unusable for editing code." A visual display of how code looks can be seen here: http://elcuco.blogli.co.il/files/2009/01/kate-hebrew-code-broken.png I am requesting a backport of changeset 905112 to the currently available packages in 8.10. See the patch here: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=905112 (it will apply to the branch as well). -- Kate is useless for editing code which contains hebrew or arabic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/314016 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
