Open Bugs
من ويكي عربآيز
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
| ID | Summary | Status/Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Number of bugs: 10
GNU Bugs
| ID | Summary |
|---|---|
| 71 | Incorrect yesexpr/noexpr of some Arabic locales |
| 305 | yesexpr/noexpr doesn't include Yy/Nn for arabic locales |
| 374 | The rules in LC_COLLATE are random and sometimes clearly wrong |
Number of bugs: 03
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 |
| 17514 | incorrect letter order / word order when exporting Hebrew as swf (flash) |
| 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 |
| 30093 | Arabic ligatures with Lucidasans leading to rectangles |
| 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 |
| 34309 | outline numbers in Arabic are reversed |
Number of bugs: 18
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) |
| 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) |
| 180628 | [FIXED] Page setup dialog takes RTL where it shouldn't | (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) |
| 332975 | Left margin on RTL list item pushes the list marker (bullet) to the right | (vote) |
| 332360 | Incorrect rendering with float: right and direction: rtl on list elements | (vote) |
Number of bugs: 16
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 70064 | virtual space is visible as an vertical line | (vote) |
| 81858 | Arabic with harakat (diacritics) in kmail doesn't show properly | (vote) |
| 86235 | typing Arabic after English let them overlap each other | (vote) |
Number of bugs: 03
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 |
|---|---|
| 136904 | broken arabic GUI |
Number of bugs: 01
QT bugs
See: Qtbugs
