Bug 112810 (RTL-Arabic-and-Farsi) - [META] Arabic & Farsi language-specific RTL issues
Summary: [META] Arabic & Farsi language-specific RTL issues
Status: NEW
Alias: RTL-Arabic-and-Farsi
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL: https://t.me/+UHz-eKUtVb52P0Kr
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Depends on: 41652 50301 71956 85426 134226 135425 146081 146220 146713 149824 150481 150516 153378 154029 154104 158064 159779 35320 39351 42558 63619 64830 67601 72017 80134 80533 81671 87731 90544 91235 91764 95650 100854 103103 103492 106309 108604 111705 112849 113102 113428 113529 113532 113993 115951 117389 119143 120119 122291 122409 125773 126657 133184 137530 139211 140011 141341 144734 145647 145961 146198 146199 147143 147241 147315 147764 148954 149022 149457 149889 150724 150726 150922 151968 152196 152473 153436 154495 154549
Blocks: RTL-CTL User-Locale
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Reported: 2017-10-02 08:12 UTC by Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
Modified: 2024-03-08 10:39 UTC (History)
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Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-10-02 08:12:51 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)

        

        
        

        
          2017-10-20 16:00:25 UTC
        

      






Meta for issues related to the Arabic user interface and locale that can be set in Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 2
        

        
          Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)

        

        
        

        
          2017-10-30 18:54:00 UTC
        

      






More issues can be found on the OOo wiki.
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Arabization_efforts

    


    


      



        
          Comment 3
        

        
          Eyal Rozenberg

        

        
        

        
          2022-02-18 15:24:21 UTC
        

      






Should this meta-bug also cover everything related to Farsi? Or should that be a separate meta-bug?

    


    


      



        
          Comment 4
        

        
          Eyal Rozenberg

        

        
        

        
          2022-08-29 20:37:59 UTC
        

      






> Should this meta-bug also cover everything related to Farsi? Or should that
> be a separate meta-bug?

It looks like the answer is "yes", so renaming the bug.

    


    


      



        
          Comment 5
        

        
          AvidSeeker

        

        
        

        
          2023-04-05 19:43:34 UTC
        

      






I gathered a list of Libreoffice bugs related to Arabic [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/arabic_linux/comments/1076evr/libreoffice_list_of_known_arabic_bug_issues/). Posting them for convenience:

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Current issues in Libreoffice:

1. [Kashida Justification support](https://www.reddit.com/r/arabic_linux/comments/x8wwxa/kashida_justification/).
2. [Break line on text direction change](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56408).
3. [Non persistent text-direction on changing paragraph style](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151857)
4. [Squiggly lines covering misspelled Arabic words](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151968).

    


    


      



        
          Comment 6
        

        
          AvidSeeker

        

        
        

        
          2023-04-05 19:45:19 UTC
        

      






* [Autodetecting Arabic as Hindi](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154495)
* [Changing paragraph style switches back to LTR](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151857)