Reproducible on: Version: 7.3.0.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 0f246aa12d0eee4a0f7adcefbf7c878fc2238db3 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); UI: fr-FR Calc: CL
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1772520 Title: [upstream] Font metrics mixed up when selecting Arabic characters in Writer Status in LibreOffice: Confirmed Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In most fonts, many characters in the Arabic script change their width and height as typing progresses. For example the letter ب (U+0628) is reduced to about a half or even a third of its width if it's followed by another character such as ا (U+0627): با. Usually LibreOffice understands the changes in font metrics pretty well but not always. See the attached screenshot where I've written the sentence "مرحبا يا صديقي العزيز" in Writer and started selecting letters from the beginning of the line. The selection shown in the screenshot looks like the whole first word plus the following space but actually it only covers the first 4 letters of the first word out of 5 total: مرحب. From a user's point of view, this is very confusing, as I can't tell how far I've already selected without counting the characters in my mind. Even more surprisingly, LibreOffice Calc shows the selection as expected, i.e. different from Writer, so this does not feel like a font problem per se, although only some fonts display this behavior. The font I'm using in this example is Scheherazade, available through a third-party repository at packages.sil.org. The font is designed to cover a very wide variety of characters used for Arabic-script minority languages in both Asia and Africa, and in many cases it's the only professionally made font available for people working on many of these languages. Description: Ubuntu 17.10 Release: 17.10 libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 Candidate: 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 Version table: *** 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 500 500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.5 500 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security/main amd64 Packages 1:5.4.1-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: libreoffice-writer 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-41.46-generic 4.13.16 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-41-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon May 21 21:03:43 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-13 (462 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-11-05 (197 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1772520/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
