Persian: Change order of characters when opening document

Attached, the result of pasting into openoffice.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu better, I can confirm this happens, it took me a little time to notice what was happening and what you were actually reporting, but yes, the "." character moves to the left of the word not the right.

Sorry, i'll explain myself better, the point doesn't move to the left of the word. What happened is that the point move to the other side of the line (that is, form the left side, to the right one):

ie, if I would write it with latin letters, it would be something like that:

. foo bar baz

is mapped to

foo bar baz .

Another problem I found is that the letters need to be joined when they form part of he same word, and after copying the text the letters are splitted up in different "units". Sorry, I don't know how to explain it better. I can reproduce the problem with arabic and persian. In Ubuntu and in Debian Sid. I've also tried the new 3.0 rc version, with locales de_DE.UTF-8 and one of the ar_XX.UTF-8 variants.. So, it's probably an upstream problem.

As soon as I can I will attach an screenshot, where you can see the effect better.

Thanks.

Sorry for the wrong comment, the first attachment is the good one.

Upstream forwarded: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=94640

nahoo, does LibreOffice Writer yield better results for you?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

 apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

nahoo, please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 274552
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

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Dear Nahoo!
All you need to do is to activate support for "complex text layout," as you can see in this image: http://freeexp.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/ooo_options_dialog_2.png

Then you will notice two new buttons are added in the formatting toolbar. To get the right result, you should format your text not only as right-aligned, but also as RTL-directioned (using the new RTL toolbar-button).

This is not actually a bug. The point is, while support for complex text layout is essential for Persian/Arabic speakers, this feature is not activated by default in OpenOffice/LibreOffice (probably because most users will never need it).

The ideal case would be a world in which LibreOffice activates complex text layout support automatically if it detects a Persian/Arabic/Hebrew/[...] keyboard layout in the system.