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Bug 313230 - Search in Evince doesn't work properly with RTL scripts
Search in Evince doesn't work properly with RTL scripts
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.3.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-08-11 15:34 UTC by Yaron Tausky
Modified: 2015-10-28 18:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Yaron Tausky 2005-08-11 15:34:24 UTC 
When I try to search a word written in an RTL script in a document, Evince
actually searches for that word spelled backwards (i.e. the right-most character
in the word I'm searching for is the left-most one in the results Evince finds).
The solution would be to apply the Unicode bidirectional algorithm.
Comment 1 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-08-16 12:02:05 UTC 
Looks like a poppler bug, please follow:
http://live.gnome.org/Evince_2fPopplerBugs
Comment 2 Yaron Tausky 2005-08-16 13:32:50 UTC 
Seems that the bug was already reported there:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2981

Closing with resolution NOTGNOME.
Comment 3 Usama Akkad 2010-05-26 11:20:49 UTC 
someone is suggesting a fix here
http://www.mail-archive.com/evince-list@gnome.org/msg01819.html

I went to poppler #poppler@freenode and someone told me that the fix is for evince not poppler
Comment 4 alex bodnaru 2012-10-21 14:24:20 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> someone is suggesting a fix here
> http://www.mail-archive.com/evince-list@gnome.org/msg01819.html
> 
> I went to poppler #poppler@freenode and someone told me that the fix is for
> evince not poppler

hello usama,

i have just implemented that solution and submitted the patch to poppler.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2981

this is a partial fix, i'll post a full solution there later.

enjoy
alex
Comment 5 eladhen2 2015-10-28 18:42:28 UTC 
It's very frustrating to see that this bug is still here since 2005. Don't really know what to say other than that (using version 3.10.3 on linux mint).