Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.1.2 Hebrew parentheses bug

> I just updated to LO 4.1.2 (English US) on Intel Mac OS X 10.7.5 and
> the parentheses mapping for Hebrew text seems to be broken. When I
> switch the input language to Hebrew, the parentheses are reversed when
> I use the Times New Roman font... However, some Hebrew fonts appear to
> be working properly. 
>
> Could this be a continuation of this problem:
> http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/18912/bidirectional-text-and-clo
> sing-bracket-bug/ 
>
> The most logical way to map the parenthesis is that the button 9
> should give a left parenthesis and the button 0 should give a right
> parenthesis, regardless of OS input language, document language, or
> text direction. This is the way Hebrew behaves in other Mac
> applications such as TextEdit and Mail... 
>
>
> Please advise whether this bug is able to be fixed, and if there is
> anything I can do on my install to fix it. 
>
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and attention.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gabriel Kaufman
 
Here is my current experience with LO 4.1.3.1 under Windows, using a 
physical US keyboard layout (so "left-parenthesis" is physically 
located at "shift+9" and "right-parenthesis" is located at 
"shift+zero"):

1_ Visual or Logical CTL settings don't affect the "displayed" 
result.

2_ With the alignment set to left-to-right (ctrl+shit+A in LO 
Writer):
2.1_ keyboard layout set to US-English, OK
2.2_ keyboard layout set to HE-English, OK
2.3_ keyboard layout set to HE-HE, parenthesis inverted: pressing 
shift+9 shows the parenthesis that is seen over the zero in the 
physical US keyboard, and vice versa.

3_ With the alignment set to right-to-left (ctrl+shit+D in LO 
Writer):
3.1_ keyboard layout set to US-English, parenthesis inverted.
3.2_ keyboard layout set to HE-English, parenthesis inverted.
3.3_ keyboard layout set to HE-HE, OK.

I am not sure which behavior should be exactly the "adequate" one, 
specially when I see that changing the CTL settings between "Visual" 
and "logical" doesn't seem to affect the result. In any case, this 
seems to be a bug and should be reported.

Regards,
Ady.

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