Bug 67317

Summary: RTL: Hebrew Niqqud is not displayed correctly in Arial Unicode MS font
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Elad Tsur <eladts>
Component: LinguisticAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: dr.khaled.hosny
Version: 4.1.0.4 release   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Mac OS X (All)   
Whiteboard: BSA
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: Incorrect rendering
Correct rendering

Description Elad Tsur 2013-07-25 18:36:19 UTC
Problem description: 

Hebrew niqqud and cantillation marks aredisplayed as separate characters instead of on the letters. This issue is OS X specific.


Steps to reproduce:

1. Copy some Hebrew text with niqqud and/or cantillation marksto the clipboad, for example:

בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ

2. Paste into any LibreOffice component.

Current behavior:

Each mark appear as a separate character.

Expected behavior:

The marks should be rendered on the letters.
              
Operating System: Mac OS X
Version: 4.1.0.4 release
Comment 1 Elad Tsur 2013-07-25 21:16:55 UTC
After further investigation, the problem appear with the default Arial MS Unicode font, but not with other fonts such as Lucida Grande. See attached screenshots.
Comment 2 Elad Tsur 2013-07-25 21:19:09 UTC
Created attachment 83012 [details]
Incorrect rendering
Comment 3 Elad Tsur 2013-07-25 21:19:42 UTC
Created attachment 83013 [details]
Correct rendering
Comment 4 Khaled Hosny 2013-07-27 17:59:04 UTC
Is this issue LibreOffice specific? What happens if you try the same text and font in TextEdit, for example?
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2014-02-02 02:06:21 UTC
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Comment 6 Elad Tsur 2014-02-02 03:00:23 UTC
The same text using the same font in TextEdit is also rendered incorrectly. However, when pasting the plain text LibreOffice defaults to the broken Arial Unicode MS while TextEdit defaults to Lucida Grande which renders correctly.
Comment 7 Owen Genat 2014-07-22 09:44:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> After further investigation, the problem appear with the default Arial MS
> Unicode font

Confirmed under MacOS 10.6.8 using v4.3.0.3 Build ID: fcd3838c4097f7817b5b3984fd88a44e1edd8548. I am seeing what is illustrated in the incorrect rendering attachment for Arial Unicode MS. Problem does not occur with Liberation Mono.

Status set to NEW. It is unclear to me whether this is an issue with LO or with the Arial Unicode MS font. Summary amended for clarity.

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