Re: [OOo-Hebrew] RLM and LRM

Hi Eran,

Hebrew OOo has already fixed the hyphen to have Unicode 4.01 bidi 
properties. Try it.

Alan

Eran Tromer wrote:
> Hi,
[snip]
> This particular case (HebrewLetter+HyphenMinus+Digit) is probably the
> most common bidi issue for both text entry and importing. It will be
> fixed by updating OpenOffice's bidi properties to comply with Unicode
> 4.01 (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33903).
> 
> This bug is unfixed and targeted "OOo Later", which I think is a grave
> error. The current situation causes a buildup of broken documents where
> people typed
>   "��20-"
> instead of
>   "��-20"
> to produce the desired rendering (no, sorry, no one uses RLM). When the
> bug is fixed, which eventually it must be, almost every Hebrew document
> written under OpenOffice will be broken.
> 
> Many of us remember the "joy" when Microsoft had exactly this issue in
> Office, so it strikes me as odd that OpenOffice.org is going the same
> painful route.
> 
> The only way to minimize the damage is to fix this ASAP. I would go as
> far as suggesting that the Hebrew OOo should fix this even if mainline
> keeps ignoring the current Unicode standard.
> 
>   Eran
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