https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61795
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 61795
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Summary: Weak Characters (like brackets) are mispositioned with
mixed RTL and LTR
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: sijproj...@gmail.com
Hardware: Other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 3.6.2.2 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
Created attachment 75900
--> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=75900&action=edit
test case
When mixing text of an RTL language (Hebrew) and LTR language (English) many
times brackets are misplaced.
This causes inability to mix texts from English and other languages, thus
making Writer unusable for day to day use.
reproduce-able text:
Hello (עול)ם
expected text:
Hello (עול)ם
as you can see, the parenthesis is misplaced in the first example.
Todays LibreOffice's solution is to add LRM and RLM chars in the correct place,
this is very unintuitive for 90% of the users.
I think the BiDi algorithm should be enhanced, and place LRM/RLM automatically
according to the current window's keyboard layout. That is if the paragraph is
RTL but the layout is English then put an LRM char before the weak char. This
is what the user usually expects to happen.
I've attached a test case .odt file.
A similar bug with brackets is:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56408
It might have a similar cause , but it's a different bug.
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