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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 2 22:24:32 +0000 2008 ------- barad: 1. I assume when you speak of "distro" you mean the interface language -- well, while it is safe to assume users who choose this interface will understand Arabic (Western) numerals, it is NOT safe to assume that having Hindu numerals converted to Western is acceptable to them. This is the assumption you make when you propose that under English interface, it is better to err on the side of Western numerals; this is what I called wrong-headed. 2. You seem to miss the Unicode point entirely. Part of the problem is that while MSOffice represents characters in 8-bits encodings, where numbers are only encoded once, and the difference between 3 and ٣ is mainly one of font; OOo keeps texts in Unicode, where 3 and ٣ are different characters. If there is a font which is A) Unicode, and so fit for use in OOo and B) the character '3' gets the graphic form ٣, then that font is buggy and needs to be killed. In OOo, you CANNOT turn a '3' into a '٣' by changing the font. 3. The problem, as far as I have seen, is actually not with English files -- it's with Hebrew files. If you follow mba's links, you'll find that the problem -- apparently -- is that the current implementation decides that any CTL-enabled .doc file should use Hindu numerals; most English docs are not CTL-enabled. Do you think you'd see mostly Israelis on this bug if the bug showed on English doc files? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
