GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 326083
Text selection is broken in RTL scripts
Last modified: 2013-07-04 03:15:55 UTC
When I try to select text written in an RTL script (Hebrew, in my case) the selection algorithm treats it like LTR text. This means that if I start a selection in the midlle of a line in an RTL paragraph and move the cursor to the middle of the next line, the selection spans to the right on the first line and from the left up to the cursor in the next line. This is okay for LTR, but in RTL scripts it should work exactly the opposite. The expected behaviour is just like the GtkTextView widget's.
Can you please attach or give a link on test document?
Created attachment 56914 [details] A PDF suffering from this bug You can clearly see the problem in this file.
I can't reproduce this bug with recent cvs. Can you try poppler 0.4.3 and check again?
I'm still experiencing this bug in poppler-0.5.0.
PDF stores Hebrew internally as visual Hebrew (LTR), so Envice will have to detect Hebrew text and work around this. It seems like Envice Evince 0.5.2 Using poppler 0.5.1 (splash) correctly reverses Hebrew when pasting to gedit, but does not do the selection properly (like Yaron noted).
Created attachment 71074 [details] Screenshot- the selection of the same text in OpenOffice (currect) and Envice (incorrect) In the attached screenshot, you can see the exat same text in OpenOffice.org and in Envice. The text was selected using the same mouse movment. Notice the diference in selections- in OpenOffice it is correct (RTL), in Envice it's incorrect (LTR).
How comes this bug is still tagged 'unconfirmed' ? I still notice it on 2.27.4.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, this problem is in poppler. You can follow the bug report in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66568 For more information, see https://live.gnome.org/Evince/PopplerBugs#poppler