Bug 112810 (RTL-Arabic-and-Farsi)

Summary:	[META] Arabic & Farsi language-specific RTL issues
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) <philipz85>
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	eyalroz1, kaplanlior, thomas.lendo
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	https://t.me/+UHz-eKUtVb52P0Kr
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112812
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:	41652, 50301, 71956, 85426, 134226, 135425, 146081, 146220, 146713, 149824, 150481, 150516, 153378, 154029, 154104, 158064, 159779, 35320, 39351, 42558, 63619, 64830, 67601, 72017, 80134, 80533, 81671, 87731, 90544, 91235, 91764, 95650, 100854, 103103, 103492, 106309, 108604, 111705, 112849, 113102, 113428, 113529, 113532, 113993, 115951, 117389, 119143, 120119, 122291, 122409, 125773, 126657, 133184, 137530, 139211, 140011, 141341, 144734, 145647, 145961, 146198, 146199, 147143, 147241, 147315, 147764, 148954, 149022, 149457, 149889, 150724, 150726, 150922, 151968, 152196, 152473, 153436, 154495, 154549
Bug Blocks:	43808, 111942

Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-10-02 08:12:51 UTC

Comment 1 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-10-20 16:00:25 UTC

Meta for issues related to the Arabic user interface and locale that can be set in Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages.

Comment 2 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-10-30 18:54:00 UTC

More issues can be found on the OOo wiki.
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Arabization_efforts

Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2022-02-18 15:24:21 UTC

Should this meta-bug also cover everything related to Farsi? Or should that be a separate meta-bug?

Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2022-08-29 20:37:59 UTC

> Should this meta-bug also cover everything related to Farsi? Or should that
> be a separate meta-bug?

It looks like the answer is "yes", so renaming the bug.

Comment 5 AvidSeeker 2023-04-05 19:43:34 UTC

I gathered a list of Libreoffice bugs related to Arabic [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/arabic_linux/comments/1076evr/libreoffice_list_of_known_arabic_bug_issues/). Posting them for convenience:

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Current issues in Libreoffice:

1. [Kashida Justification support](https://www.reddit.com/r/arabic_linux/comments/x8wwxa/kashida_justification/).
2. [Break line on text direction change](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56408).
3. [Non persistent text-direction on changing paragraph style](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151857)
4. [Squiggly lines covering misspelled Arabic words](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151968).

Comment 6 AvidSeeker 2023-04-05 19:45:19 UTC

* [Autodetecting Arabic as Hindi](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154495)
* [Changing paragraph style switches back to LTR](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151857)