These are the well-known open bugs (or limitations) related to Arabic in the current generation of GNU/Linux software. It's meant to serve as a one-stop location to check before filing a bug to reduce duplication. This document will be updated regularly. This is the least I can do for the good of our community.
| ID | Summary | vote
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| 40664 | hebrew and right to left paragraphs and bulltes
| (vote)
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| 41410 | Arabic url address bar no popup | (vote)
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| 42578 | Parentheses in RTL text (hebrew, arabic) | (vote)
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| 46210 | i18n, bidi: Support for RLM/LRM in HTML pages. | (vote)
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| 47171 | Mixed Hebrew & Lattin text in the same paragraph - no user control over ordering | (vote)
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| 47528 | commented out meta element is read instead of the not commented out one | (vote)
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| 47682 | HTML 4 SGML Entities don't all work | (vote)
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| 59029 | Rightly alignd hebrew paragraphs in HTML export dose not posses dir=rtl argument | (vote)
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| 61265 | Right to left didn't implement yet | (vote)
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| 63351 | text-indent in Hebrew HTML pages moves right instead of left | (vote)
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| 65551 | wrong Arabic display under kdict | (vote)
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| 70400 | New tabbing widget does not have scrolling buttons in RTL mode | (vote)
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| 70414 | New tabbing widget overflows to the right in RTL mode | (vote)
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| 73673 | Reversed Arabic Letter in the plot window | (vote)
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| 74190 | Console Unicode support not 100% there | (vote)
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| 79042 | Shares with Arabic filenames don't behave properly | (vote)
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| 79682 | When searching for words in msgstr there should be an option to ignore some characters | (vote)
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| 79862 | Arabic-Indic digits (U+660 - U+669) are not recognizedas ... | (vote)
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| 83278 | If I cut -b1 arabic_file in konsole, the output displayed in screen is not correct | (vote)
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| 84285 | Arabic filenames with extenstions doesn't dispaly properly in konqueror | (vote)
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| 84606 | kxkb group switching using just the Right Win doesn't work (+ugly workaround HOWTO) | (vote)
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| 135965 | right to left arabic writing with accelerator symbol &: duplication of the first arabic character after the &
| (vote)
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Feel free to work on any of them. Of particular interest and higher priority are:
| ID | Summary | Status/Resolution | Assigned to
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| 78921 | right alignment of file names for Arabic | INCOMPLETE
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| 94665 | TO write in Arabic you need to hold ALT | WONTFIX
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| 110896 | Add unshaping of presentation forms to arabic-fc.c | WONTFIX
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| 103938 | feature request: better handling of invalid combinations | NEW
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| 135753 | Improve Arabic mark positioning | WONTFIX
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| 136529 | Auto direction code should not respect keyboard layout anymore | NEW
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| 137082 | Gui bug when switching to Arabic locale (rtl) | INCOMPLETE
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| 137083 | gui bug when switching to Arabic locale (rtl) | DUPLICATE
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| 137084 | gui bug when switching to Arabic locale | FIXED
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| 148732 | cursor movement is not correct in gedit when I type Arabic text. | NEW
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| 153546 | arabic shaping is not done when glyphs come from different fonts | WONTFIX
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| 350132 | backspacing doesn't work properly for Arabic | UNCONFIRMED
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| 341899 | Message showing background image size and type is not localized | UNCONFIRMED
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| 342639 | Ctrl+Left Arrow moves the cursor to the Right one word. | UNCONFIRMED
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| 361766 | Cursor is positioned where it shouldn't | UNCONFIRMED
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| 342659 | Arabic characters are disjointed in Evolution the message body | UNCONFIRMED
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| 350610 | Unicode Bidirectional types and functions | UNCONFIRMED
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| 306749 | Automatic paragraph direction detection algorithm needed | UNCONFIRMED
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| 375690 | Can't localise numbers: CVS refuses po file | UNCONFIRMED
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| ID | Summary
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| 16242 | When setting a paragraph style, there is no preview of the hebrew/arabic
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| 16295 | directionality lost when exporting a presentation to text
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| 17624 | Arabic Tashkeel (a.k.a. Diactric) bug : ZWSP characters are given spaces!
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| 18024 | Direction of weak characters: A new method for dealing with text direction without using keyboard layout
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| 22396 | Can't Use both Hindi and Arabic Numerals
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| 23041 | Arabic Character Rotation Does Not Work (trl text in ltr par
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| 23627 | headings centered in arabic OOo version
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| 27174 | Immitating eLaTex L2R/R2L parenthesis, to bound L2R text
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| 28203 | error in justified Arabic text
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| 30518 | brochure printing is always LTR, even when locale/document are RTL
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| 30631 | R2L enabled controls
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| 32179 | parenthesis are revesersed when they have arabic text in between in the dialog boxes
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| 32289 | Arabic shaping/joinging is broken after a dot or a floating point in the dialog boxes
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| 34139 | Gaps between Arabic letters that should be joined
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| 34141 | Extra horizontal lines added after Arabic letters
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| ID | Summary | vote
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| 96057 | Paragraph directionality control UI in Composer ... | (vote)
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| 135272 | columns content doesn't flip when setting the UI aligned ... | (vote)
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| 312436 | Arabic characters with accelerators aren't shaped | (vote)
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| 140636 | menu items are not aligned on the same line when UI align... | (vote)
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| 140759 | trees are not aligned to the right when UI direction is r... | (vote)
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| 140763 | toolbar is offset by a pixel when UI aligned to the right | (vote)
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| 157967 | Make Gecko interoperate better with advanced typography s... | (vote)
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| 180112 | Arabic combining diacritical marks are rendered separatel... | (vote)
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| 192644 | Arabic/Hebrew/Thai/Chinese translation of mozilla.org/pro.. | (vote)
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| 206008 | needs control on the number of unread messages in newsgroups | (vote)
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| 206010 | print preview doesn't take bidi | (vote)
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| 213727 | html and plain text domains prefs box should stay LTR whe... | (vote)
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| 213738 | URLs and Fields columns should be LTR when UI is right to... | (vote)
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| 213742 | name should remain LTR even when the... | (vote)
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| 98157 | Caret does not have bidi marker in certain dialog boxes | (vote)
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| 154632 | Text in SELECT widgets with dir=rtl overlaps the... | (vote)
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| 177508 | ALT-key / underlined keyboard shortcuts... | (vote)
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| 265030 | Arabic support for Universal (All) Autodetect | (vote)
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| 297790 | checkbox and bullets appear on wrong side... | (vote)
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| 347502 | Inconsistent wrong bidi direction in tab titles | (vote)
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| 347514 | Wrong placement of tab drop indicator in RTL... | (vote)
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