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Bug 546828 - Searching in RTL languages requires reverse typing
Searching in RTL languages requires reverse typing
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-07 16:27 UTC by oren.barnea
Modified: 2012-11-04 22:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description oren.barnea 2008-08-07 16:27:12 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When I'm searching a document written in Hebrew and I type the word correctly, Evince doesn't find the word I'm looking for. I have to type it backwards (e.g. "drow" instead of "word") if I want Evince to find it.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a PDF document with Hebrew text
2. Press ctrl-F
3. Type a word you see in the text


Actual results:
The word is not found, unless typed backwards.

Expected results:
I expect the text to be found :)

Does this happen every time?
It happened with every document I checked, but it was only 3 or 4 documents.

Other information:
I reported this bug on Ubuntu. Here's the bug on Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/240398
Comment 1 Guy Sheffer 2009-08-04 16:20:32 UTC 
Bug is also in Debian, evince 2.26.2. 
Tt seems it should be easily fixed. Just detect RTL languages and flip it. I have a feeling it might be connected to the way RTL stuff is stored in pdf files.
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2009-09-03 12:44:55 UTC 
The issue seems similar to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2981
Comment 3 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2012-11-04 22:47:41 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> The issue seems similar to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2981

Indeed.  Closing it as NOTGNOME.

For more information, see
https://live.gnome.org/Evince/PopplerBugs#poppler