Issue 33854 - Apostrophe problem in Hebrew
Summary: Apostrophe problem in Hebrew
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 18024
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.2
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: stefan.baltzer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2004-09-06 09:23 UTC by shmuelh
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Hebrew word with apostrophe (5.81 KB, application/vnd.sun.xml.writer)
2004-09-06 09:24 UTC, shmuelh 		no flags Details
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Description shmuelh 2004-09-06 09:23:50 UTC 
I find the following very frustrating:

Take a Hebrew file (as attached) which has (reading right to left) a Hebrew word
followed by an apostrophe. 
Copy this word and its apostrophe to a left to right document.
The apostrophe moves to the other side of the word, rather than being on the
same side where it had been.

For example, let's say I had a Hebrew word with an apostrophe (read this right
to left)
'KOOB

When one moves it to a left to right document, the word becomes 
KOOB'

This causes havoc in reading the Hebrew, especially as an apostrophe is often
used in Hebrew to denote a word abbreviation.

In English, you might have an abreviation like "approx.", which everyone
understands to be an abbreviation of "approximately."
However, what would an English speaker understand if he found ".approx"?

That's why this is a really big problem in Hebrew.
Comment 1 shmuelh 2004-09-06 09:24:47 UTC 
Created attachment 17553 [details]
Hebrew word with apostrophe
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2004-09-06 10:28:49 UTC 
reassigned to SBA.
Comment 3 frank.meies 2004-09-06 10:39:45 UTC 
Duplicate of issue 18024. Any character without an explicit direction will cause
these problems, since the unicode bidi algorithm cannot determine on which side
of the previous word it has to appear.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 18024 ***
Comment 4 stefan.baltzer 2004-09-14 17:52:58 UTC 
SBA: Closed as duplicate.