Bugs
(تم التحويل من Openbugs)
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.
محتويات |
[
] KDE Bugs
| ID | Summary | vote |
|---|---|---|
| 40664 | hebrew and right to left paragraphs and bulltes | (vote) |
| 41410 | Arabic url address bar no popup | (vote) |
| 42578 | Parentheses in RTL text (hebrew, arabic) | (vote) |
| 46210 | i18n, bidi: Support for RLM/LRM in HTML pages. | (vote) |
| 47171 | Mixed Hebrew & Lattin text in the same paragraph - no user control over ordering | (vote) |
| 47528 | commented out meta element is read instead of the not commented out one | (vote) |
| 47682 | HTML 4 SGML Entities don't all work | (vote) |
| 59029 | Rightly alignd hebrew paragraphs in HTML export dose not posses dir=rtl argument | (vote) |
| 61265 | Right to left didn't implement yet | (vote) |
| 63351 | text-indent in Hebrew HTML pages moves right instead of left | (vote) |
| 65551 | wrong Arabic display under kdict | (vote) |
| 70400 | New tabbing widget does not have scrolling buttons in RTL mode | (vote) |
| 70414 | New tabbing widget overflows to the right in RTL mode | (vote) |
| 73673 | Reversed Arabic Letter in the plot window | (vote) |
| 74190 | Console Unicode support not 100% there | (vote) |
| 79042 | Shares with Arabic filenames don't behave properly | (vote) |
| 79682 | When searching for words in msgstr there should be an option to ignore some characters | (vote) |
| 79862 | Arabic-Indic digits (U+660 - U+669) are not recognizedas ... | (vote) |
| 83278 | If I cut -b1 arabic_file in konsole, the output displayed in screen is not correct | (vote) |
| 84285 | Arabic filenames with extenstions doesn't dispaly properly in konqueror | (vote) |
| 84606 | kxkb group switching using just the Right Win doesn't work (+ugly workaround HOWTO) | (vote) |
| 135965 | right to left arabic writing with accelerator symbol &: duplication of the first arabic character after the & | (vote) |
number of bugs: 21
[] Gnome Bugs
Gnome bugs related to Arabic: From Gnome's bugzilla
Feel free to work on any of them. Of particular interest and higher priority are:
| ID | Summary | Status/Resolution | Assigned to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 78921 | right alignment of file names for Arabic | INCOMPLETE | |
| 94665 | TO write in Arabic you need to hold ALT | WONTFIX | |
| 110896 | Add unshaping of presentation forms to arabic-fc.c | WONTFIX | |
| 103938 | feature request: better handling of invalid combinations | NEW | |
| 135753 | Improve Arabic mark positioning | WONTFIX | |
| 136529 | Auto direction code should not respect keyboard layout anymore | NEW | |
| 137082 | Gui bug when switching to Arabic locale (rtl) | INCOMPLETE | |
| 137083 | gui bug when switching to Arabic locale (rtl) | DUPLICATE | |
| 137084 | gui bug when switching to Arabic locale | FIXED | |
| 148732 | cursor movement is not correct in gedit when I type Arabic text. | NEW | |
| 153546 | arabic shaping is not done when glyphs come from different fonts | WONTFIX | |
| 350132 | backspacing doesn't work properly for Arabic | UNCONFIRMED | |
| 341899 | Message showing background image size and type is not localized | UNCONFIRMED | |
| 342639 | Ctrl+Left Arrow moves the cursor to the Right one word. | UNCONFIRMED | |
| 361766 | Cursor is positioned where it shouldn't | UNCONFIRMED | |
| 342659 | Arabic characters are disjointed in Evolution the message body | UNCONFIRMED | |
| 350610 | Unicode Bidirectional types and functions | UNCONFIRMED | |
| 306749 | Automatic paragraph direction detection algorithm needed | UNCONFIRMED | |
| 375690 | Can't localise numbers: CVS refuses po file | UNCONFIRMED |
Number of bugs: ?
This section is maintained by Djihed.
[] GNU Bugs
| ID | Summary |
|---|
Number of bugs: 0
[] OpenOffice.org Bugs
| ID | Summary |
|---|---|
| 16242 | When setting a paragraph style, there is no preview of the hebrew/arabic |
| 16295 | directionality lost when exporting a presentation to text |
| 17624 | Arabic Tashkeel (a.k.a. Diactric) bug : ZWSP characters are given spaces! |
| 18024 | Direction of weak characters: A new method for dealing with text direction without using keyboard layout |
| 22396 | Can't Use both Hindi and Arabic Numerals |
| 23041 | Arabic Character Rotation Does Not Work (trl text in ltr par |
| 23627 | headings centered in arabic OOo version |
| 27174 | Immitating eLaTex L2R/R2L parenthesis, to bound L2R text |
| 28203 | error in justified Arabic text |
| 30518 | brochure printing is always LTR, even when locale/document are RTL |
| 30631 | R2L enabled controls |
| 32179 | parenthesis are revesersed when they have arabic text in between in the dialog boxes |
| 32289 | Arabic shaping/joinging is broken after a dot or a floating point in the dialog boxes |
| 34139 | Gaps between Arabic letters that should be joined |
| 34141 | Extra horizontal lines added after Arabic letters |
Number of bugs: 15
[] Scribus Bugs
| ID | Summary |
|---|---|
| 1079 | Arabic is not supported in Scribus yet... |
Number of bugs: 01
[] Mozilla Bugs
| ID | Summary | vote |
|---|---|---|
| 96057 | Paragraph directionality control UI in Composer ... | (vote) |
| 135272 | columns content doesn't flip when setting the UI aligned ... | (vote) |
| 312436 | Arabic characters with accelerators aren't shaped | (vote) |
| 140636 | menu items are not aligned on the same line when UI align... | (vote) |
| 140759 | trees are not aligned to the right when UI direction is r... | (vote) |
| 140763 | toolbar is offset by a pixel when UI aligned to the right | (vote) |
| 157967 | Make Gecko interoperate better with advanced typography s... | (vote) |
| 180112 | Arabic combining diacritical marks are rendered separatel... | (vote) |
| 192644 | Arabic/Hebrew/Thai/Chinese translation of mozilla.org/pro.. | (vote) |
| 206008 | needs control on the number of unread messages in newsgroups | (vote) |
| 206010 | print preview doesn't take bidi | (vote) |
| 213727 | html and plain text domains prefs box should stay LTR whe... | (vote) |
| 213738 | URLs and Fields columns should be LTR when UI is right to... | (vote) |
| 213742 | name should remain LTR even when the... | (vote) |
| 98157 | Caret does not have bidi marker in certain dialog boxes | (vote) |
| 154632 | Text in SELECT widgets with dir=rtl overlaps the... | (vote) |
| 177508 | ALT-key / underlined keyboard shortcuts... | (vote) |
| 265030 | Arabic support for Universal (All) Autodetect | (vote) |
| 297790 | checkbox and bullets appear on wrong side... | (vote) |
| 347502 | Inconsistent wrong bidi direction in tab titles | (vote) |
| 347514 | Wrong placement of tab drop indicator in RTL... | (vote) |
Number of bugs: 21
[] Samba Bugs
| ID | Summary |
|---|---|
| 1338 | smbclient -L netbiosname doesn't display the Arabic shares folder names... |
Number of bugs: 1
[] Bicon Bugs
| ID | Summary |
|---|---|
| 181 | seven bugs as a package. |
Number of bugs: 01
[] QtBugs
| ID | Summary | vote |
|---|---|---|
| 86235 | typing Arabic after English let them overlap each other | (vote) |
Number of bugs: 01
See also: Qtbugs
[] Mandrakelinux Bugs
| ID | Summary | vote |
|---|---|---|
| 9596 | The "Use Unicode by default" option should be automatically checked in case of Arabic | (vote) |
Number of bugs: 01
[] RedHat/Fedora Bugs
| ID | Summary |
|---|
Number of bugs: 0
[] Freedesktop.org Bugs
| ID | Summary | 8195 | Ligatures problem in Arabic keyboard layout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2981 | RtL select, copy/paste and search support for Arabic and Hebrew scripts |
Number of bugs: 02