Patch 8 changes Hebrew and Arabic digits into characters

moshed · Last edited by moshed on Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:59 pm; edited 1 time in total

After updating to Patch 8 on Mac Intel running OS 10.5.1, digits that are adjacent to Hebrew or Arabic characters are changed to Hebrew or Arabic characters.

So if typing the character in Hebrew and then typing the number 1, instead of typing 1 it shows again the same character.

If there is a space between the character and the digit, it works well, but if there isn't a space between the character and the digit, NeoOffice changes the digit to character.

It worked well until patch 6, and broke after applying patch 8. The change is not only for new documents, but this also changes old documents as well.

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

Can you file a bug in Bugzilla for this bug so that we won't forget about it. If you could put a set of specific steps in the bug that we can use to easily reproduce the bug, that will also be very helpful since neither Ed nor I type in right-to-left languages on a day-to-day basis and we want to make sure that we can reproduce the bug easily so that we can fix it correctly.

Patrick

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

FYI. I have located the place in the NeoOffice code where this bug is occurring so I'll probably have a fix in the next test patch which will be posted in the next couple of days. So, if you file a bug, Bugzilla will automatically e-mail you when I have the test patch ready for you to try.

Patrick

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

FYI. I have posted a test patch with a fix for this bug. Links to the test patch are near the end of bug 2889.

Patrick

moshed · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:12 pm Post subject:

Thanks Patrick, I tested the fix on an Intel machine, and it works fine.

Moshe