Feedback as requested:
Well, first of all, the wording is generic and has some redundant text.
If I were to read this tender, I would assume whoever published it is
either technically incompetent, or has been told by a third party to
publish the tender, and would be ill-equipped to offer guidance to
whoever wants to address the issue, including regarding the causes and
potential avenues for a fix. That's off-putting.
Among other things, the tender itself should list key relevant
"technology standards", related third-party libraries/tools,
subtrees/directories within the LO source tree etc. More specifically, I
should be seeing some paragraphs regarding pdfimport, i18util, string
mirroring, character classification etc.
I would also expect to see text explaining the significance and public
'visibility' of this issue: This single issue prevents LO from being
used to edit, or even view, PDF files with content in any of the RTL
languages (Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Hebrew etc). It is a big deal.
Also, perhaps it should be made clear we are expecting a robust fix, not
some kind of reverse-the-reversed-text hack, or using single-character
text runs or some such silliness.
Eyal
Hello,
one of the approved [1] tenders is the
Tender "Text runs of RTL scripts from imported PDF are reversed"
The board would like to work together in public with all of you on this tender
before it gets officially published. The current draft is therefore shared at
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/Lpg2APqkYbPHezd
The board is happy to get your feedback and proposals. We'd like to discuss
this ideally in the board call after next, i.e. on Monday, May 16, at 1800
Berlin time. Please send your feedback to the public
board-discuss@documentfoundation.org mailing list. Thanks a lot to all
community members involved for working on the tender draft!
Looking forward to your feedback,
Xisco
[1]
https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00400.html
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