Hebrew text cut'n'pasted from a Hebrew word processor (such as DavkaWriter) doesn't get the nikud (pointing) correct if more than one accent applies to a letter. The problem manifests if a vowel is applied to a letter that already has a dagesh in it. Vowels normally appear under or over, but in the same letter space as, the consonant letter which they follow (pronunciation-wise). Type a lamed with a patakh and the patakh will appear as a short horizontal line under the lamed. However, type a lamed with a dagesh (a dot in the middle of the letter) and then type the patakh and the patakh goes to the left of the lamed, widening the letter space by the width of the vowel mark. The cursor moves over both as if they are single character, but the visual appearance looks as if a space with the vowel point has been inserted after the consonant letter. This is a major issue for me, since I use entirely pointed Hebrew texts in mainly English documents. The same problem also exists in OpenOffice 3.3.0, so presumably dates from before the code branch. I don't remember it happenning in OpenOffice 2.4
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Bjoern, > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39805 > > This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it > started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is > changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back > to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 > prereleases. I have tried several times, but can't install the 3.5.0 beta-2 file. It starts the install process (Windows), then tells me that I have to exit the 3.5 QuickStart program before continuing. I removed 3.4 but that made no difference. What now? Jonathan
Created attachment 57933 [details] LOfault.odt > I have tried several times, but can't install the 3.5.0 beta-2 file ... try to reboot before installation. Thanks for bugreport Please, verify: in last version of LibreOffice problem remains?
Friends, > --- Comment #1 from Björn Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com> 2011-12-23 12:27:01 PST --- > [This is an automated message.] > This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it > started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is > changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back > to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 > prereleases. Sorry for the delay - I had (a) too much work to do (b) problems getting the betas to load. The problem persists in the 3.5.0 production down that I just downloaded and installed. Attached are three small files: 1. the LibreOffice file with the Hebrew characters pasted in 2. a screenshot showing what the characters should look like as they do in DavkaWriter, the Hebrew W/P we use 3. a screenshot showing what LibreOffice does with the text Jonathan
Created attachment 57934 [details] LOshouldbe.GIF
Created attachment 57935 [details] LOfault.GIF
Thanks for attachments. This is Windows specific problem Reproducible in 3.4.3 and 3.5.0 beta 3 on Windows XP 32 bit Reproduced in all modules of LibreOffice Reproduced in Word and Excel 2003, Firefox, Inkscape by copy-paste text from Writer Reproduced in Word by saving as doc file What is interesting in 3.5.0: when copy-paste from Writer to Calc using double click of cell in Calc before placing or placing cursor in Formula bar, text looks correctly. If paste into Calc just by press Ctrl-V, text looks wrong. And after this pastes wrong by all variants of pasting. But if save such experiments in Calc as ods file, close office completely, open file by Calc 3.5.0 again, then text in cells looks correct. If open this file by Calc 3.4.3, it crashes on Windows
Created attachment 57956 [details] experiments with copy-paste to Calc 3.5.0 on Windows XP 32 bit
Experiments on another comp with Windows XP 32 bit Open attached ods file with Calc 3.4.3 -- crash Open it with Word 2007 -- opens as text document where first 2 occurenes of text is correct. Copy-paste right (looking ok) occurrence of text from Word 2007 to Firefox -- looks wrong The same to Word 2003 -- looks ok The same to Writer 3.4.3 -- immediately crashes Open attached ods file with Excel 2007 -- all occurenes of text looks wrong
Created attachment 57957 [details] file created in Word 2007 by copy-paste correct parts of text
After some experiment I have determined: if delete this from document file: style:font-name-complex="Lucida Sans Unicode" then on Windows document becomes with wrong character appearance
@ Michael Please, take look at this bug. IMHO not enough of one element in odt file, in result looks wrong on Windows
Apparently this is a problem with precomposed characters and legacy Hebrew fonts. All modern fonts display that string properly. Decomposed sequences like Sin + Shin dot + Dagesh + Patach look good with any font.
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As requested, I have tested this again with the latest LO 4.4.2 on Win XP 32. It still has the same problems: if one hebrew consonant has more than one addition, a dagesh and a vowel, then the vowel appears in a pseudo-space after the character and all the following text is moved along to the left.
Sorry to use another comment slot, but I should add that the problem manifests in exactly the same way in OOo, both before and after the split.
*** Bug 48732 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@khaledhosny, you've marked this bug as resolved. Can you add why - a commit was made or a comment by someone confirming the fix ( I couldn't find one).
This is fixed by work in bug 89870, it can be verified with the daily builds.