First of all, Hebrew is reversed. Second, When writing Hebrew words and then enter spaces the words gets distorted. To reproduce: *************** Switch to RTL and Hebrew keyboard. 1. bug - reversed order: write some words in hebrew. Expected: The words are written RTL - letter after letter. Actual: the words written in reverse. All letters are added on the right. 2. bug - distortion when adding spaces or other words (This is already happening on 3.2. ) Write 2 words in Hebrew and then add spaces Expected: the first words remains the same and spaces are added to its left. Actual: The words get distorted. The above bugs happens only on MAC. Every time (Fully reproducible). All of the above apply also to Arabic. The commit I built was 1071eccd037390774b6d3f1aade9af02fd2cbe54 (But, as I said the second bug happens even on the 3.2 version).
Small fix - none of the problems happens on the prior versions just on the master.
Confirming that RTL doesn't work on master Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha2+ Build ID: c1358e5dc875bb923f4b5472ba615ebd19f0d057 tried Hebrew and Arabic
Arabic seems to work OK in LO 4322 - regression
if this bug is only happening on Mac and not Win/Linux then probably it's a bug in VCL, not Writer.
CloudOn says they have a fix for this but they have been too busy to submit it.
Yes. Found the bug. It's in the ctlayout.cxx. Will be soon submitted (sorry. no free time lately :)
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Gal Bar-Nissan, any news...? Would be nice to get this fixed in 4.4.
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pushed a fixing patch: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/13288/
galbarnissan committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=00fda95ae461120d515d7cbdcadf8834b6ff12fe fdo#85806: Hebrew and Arabic is not working on MAC It will be available in 4.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
galbarnissan committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2f95a5f5b1564cc115f007403869741608ae2c01&h=libreoffice-4-4 fdo#85806: Hebrew and Arabic is not working on MAC It will be available in 4.4.0.0.beta2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Assuming that the above commits are the complete fix for this, I’m closing this report.