Bug 162913 - DOCX: opening an english document in rtl localized libreoffice is right justified
Summary: DOCX: opening an english document in rtl localized libreoffice is right justi...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Keywords: filter:docx
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Blocks: Arabic-and-Farsi
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Reported: 2024-09-11 02:36 UTC by Adil Haimoura
Modified: 2024-10-18 13:48 UTC (History)
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A document with English text (US English to be exact) (14.00 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2024-09-17 21:37 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
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Description Adil Haimoura 2024-09-11 02:36:21 UTC
Description:
I am an Arabic person with LibreOffice installed in my Linux. I localized from setting to be able to start new document from right to left. The problem arises when some coworkers send me or I download an English document.  It always appear as right justified, even if they assured it is left justified in there PC, and sometimes sent me screenshots 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set local in language to any Arabic or right to left Language, Ui does not matter
2. try to open an English document. 


Actual Results:
 result it is right justified 

Expected Results:
normal to see it just from Left to right


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
opens the document as right to left
Comment 1 Ezinne 2024-09-17 20:32:59 UTC
Reproducible in:
Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7b8ae2bf7cf9d4d637b40030bb9f482f6fba5194
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-09-17 21:36:03 UTC
(In reply to Ezinne from comment #1)

I actually can't reproduce with a recent nightly... can you provide exact build info?
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-09-17 21:37:31 UTC
Created attachment 196517 [details]
A document with English text (US English to be exact)

So that we have less independent variables - let's try to use this document to reproduce the bug.

(If the bug can only be reproduced with _other_ documents - let's first try to narrow down which documents trigger the bug)
Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-09-17 21:46:38 UTC
I cannot reproduce with:

Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7b8ae2bf7cf9d4d637b40030bb9f482f6fba5194
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.6; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_IL); UI: ar-SA

I also tried the Farsi and Hebrew UIs, and could not reproduce. In all cases, I opened attachment 196517 [details] (english_doc.odt).

Adil, please try providing exact reproduction instructions :-(


Also, and unrelated to the bug: You are always welcome to join the LibreOffice Arabic group on Telegram: https://t.me/+UHz-eKUtVb52P0Kr , or on IRC: libera.chat, channel #libreoffice-arabic . I believe it is important for more Arabic-using LO users to be in touch with each other, bring up issues/ideas, find additional potential colleagues/friends to try to promote use of LibreOffice etc.
Comment 5 Adil Haimoura 2024-09-18 11:36:00 UTC
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #4)
> I cannot reproduce with:
> 
> Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
> Build ID: 7b8ae2bf7cf9d4d637b40030bb9f482f6fba5194
> CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.6; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
> Locale: en-US (en_IL); UI: ar-SA
> 
> I also tried the Farsi and Hebrew UIs, and could not reproduce. In all
> cases, I opened attachment 196517 [details] (english_doc.odt).
> 
> Adil, please try providing exact reproduction instructions :-(
> 
> 
> Also, and unrelated to the bug: You are always welcome to join the
> LibreOffice Arabic group on Telegram: https://t.me/+UHz-eKUtVb52P0Kr , or on
> IRC: libera.chat, channel #libreoffice-arabic . I believe it is important
> for more Arabic-using LO users to be in touch with each other, bring up
> issues/ideas, find additional potential colleagues/friends to try to promote
> use of LibreOffice etc.

the problem with .docx files if that makes different I did not test with odt
no one sent me odt files all people send docx
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2024-09-19 03:17:17 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)