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------- Additional comments from h...@openoffice.org Wed Feb 25 12:15:59 +0000 2009 ------- Indeed there is an ambiguity that has historical reasons: The app has almost 10e7 lines of code and most of it was developed without any BiDi-considerations. Writer and EditEngine have been fixed to handle this, but most of older parts just assumed LTR-preference or was lucky with the much better matching natural-default. Requiring each of these code parts to set their BiDi-preferences correctly is not trivial, a huge amount of work and all that effort would not make any visible difference to 99% of the end-users. And even to those where it makes a difference a weak-LTR preference may be a step backwards from the natural- default. In any case the patch that sets a weak-LTR preference when a weak-RTL preference really is requested is not a good idea. One can argue whether the default OutputDevice setting should be weak-LTR or BiDi-natural, but this is a different question. I think BiDi-natural is a good default, though. Debugging into this problem on Windows I think the problem for weak-BiDi settings is that the ordering of the BiDi-runs from the ICU-algorithm and the algorithm used in UniscribeLayout differs. I'm 99% sure that the code near "L2 algorithm" needs a closer look to match the result of the ICU- algorithm. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: issues-unsubscr...@gsl.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@gsl.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
