Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17513
[calc] setting cell direction to RTL should align cell to the right
Last modified: 2004-11-25 21:31:09 UTC
When setting cell direction as RTL, the cell contenst is still aligned to the left. It should automaticly align to the right, as writer does.
Created attachment 8079 [details] testcase
DL->NN: Would you please takeover?
Falko, we did it that way on purpose. Any comments?
We had the requirement to set the cells attribute to RTL but not its contents alignment. A competitotr was chosen as an example for this. This feature was accepted and agreed from Sun Dubai.
Closed
* This bug has been mentioned in few of the press reviews of OOo. IMO, we should consider re-opening
*** Issue 37383 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Please add a justification or I will close it again. Just saying "This bug has been mentioned in few of the press reviews of OOo." isn't enough since the major stakeholder, Sun Dubai, agreed on the current behaviour. BTW, it is not a bug anyway.
Please add a justification or I cannot re-open it. Just saying "This bug has been mentioned in few of the press reviews of OOo." isn't enough since the major stakeholder, Sun Dubai, agreed on the current behaviour. BTW, it is not a bug anyway.
* In MS Excel, the default cell alignment matches the cell directionality (when you change the directionality, the alignment changes with it). * Many Hebrew language users have asked about this issue (many of them have a language barrior to enter here).
And, if you noticed, the bug marked duplicate to this was reported by ayaniger from tkos, the company that is doing the l10n for Hebrew. I don't think that tkos know less of the Hebrew market then Sun Dubai knows of the Arabic market.
In issue #30158, you can see many examples of excel files that do not open correctly in calc, from reasons which are probably related to this issue.