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Bug 736310 - RTL: problem with English phrases containing punctuation marks in Persian text
RTL: problem with English phrases containing punctuation marks in Persian text
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: general
1.36.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-09-09 08:27 UTC by Arham Amouei
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
what I see in gedit. (4.84 KB, image/png)
2014-09-09 08:27 UTC, Arham Amouei 		Details
the buggy text (68 bytes, text/plain)
2014-09-11 15:49 UTC, Sébastien Wilmet 		Details

Description Arham Amouei 2014-09-09 08:27:08 UTC 
Created attachment 285716 [details]
what I see in gedit.

As you may know, Persian is a right-to-left language. When I type an English phrase containing punctuation marks in a Persian text in gedit, what I see on the screen isn't what I expect. For example when I type

\commandname{new}

within a Persian (right-to-left) text, it is shown as

{commandname{new\

This makes reading and editing such texts difficult.
Comment 1 Sébastien Wilmet 2014-09-09 10:52:05 UTC 
Can you copy/paste the text here in bugzilla? so we can test if the bug comes from Pango or GtkTextView.
Comment 2 Arham Amouei 2014-09-09 11:14:59 UTC 
For instance, the sentence

این یک مثال ساده درباره‌ی \cmd{param} است.

begins with the Persian word این .

gedit, automatically starts this sentence from the right side of the window, which is very good. But, the phrase '\cmd{param}' is displayed as '{cmd{param\'.

The same problem occurs in LibreOffice under Linux, and notepad under Windows, but Microsoft Office works properly.
Comment 3 Arham Amouei 2014-09-09 11:35:24 UTC 
Actually, Microsoft Word shows such texts correctly only when you directly type it in Microsoft Word. But If you copy/paste from elsewhere, the same problem occurs.
Comment 4 Sébastien Wilmet 2014-09-11 15:49:01 UTC 
Created attachment 285931 [details]
the buggy text
Comment 5 Sébastien Wilmet 2014-09-11 15:50:24 UTC 
The same bug happens with GtkTextView and pango-view.
Comment 6 Behdad Esfahbod 2014-10-15 05:11:09 UTC 
This will eventually be fixed when we implement Unicode 6.3 bidi bracket-pairing:

  http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#N0

Will take a while.
Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:12:46 UTC 
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