Open office change language-layout in writing 2 chr

[Islam Alshaikh إسلام الشيخ]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Hello,

If I write in open office 2 chr in native language (Arabic) then space , it change the Language layout to English

thair is many words in Arabic in 2 chr only

with this bug I can not writing complete paragraph in open office writer without changing language layout

Thank you

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 23 17:59:24 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=ar_KW.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you still have this problem with openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-9ubuntu2 in Ubuntu 8.10?

[Islam Alshaikh إسلام الشيخ (islam-alshaikh)]

I will see new ver.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Islam Alshaikh إسلام الشيخ (islam-alshaikh)]

This problem is in new ver. also

My Ver is : 1:2.4.1-11

after 2 chr+space the native language (Arabic) changed & without changing the Led

[Tombigel (tombigel)]

Have a similar problem in 2.4 and in 3.0 on Intrepid (English version), with Hebrew as an input language.

I installed OOo 3.0 using "Ubuntu tweak" and noticed the problem (Maybe it was there before, I don't know, all I know it wasn't there on Hardy).
I then downgraded back to the latest 2.4 from the repositories but the problem is still there.

I start a document writing in Hebrew, and after typing a 2 letter word, language flips to English.

This is actually a bit funny -
1 letter word - OK
3....6 etc. letter words - OK
Numbers - OK
2 letter word - Flips back to English.

Please tell me what additional info you need.

btw - when I select "Report a bug" under help in OOo I get a "Page not found error"

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Arne can you take a look at this bug?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

@Islam Alshaikh and Tombigel:

can you please prepare a test case for me? I need more information to verify this behavior.

1. does this bug happen only in openoffice.org, or also in other applications?
2. I assume you use a Gnome desktop with XKB keymaps to type Arabic or Hebrew, is that correct? If not, what do you use to input Arabic/Hebrew?
3. can you give me some sample strings (which keys do I need to press on a US keyboard with Arabic/Hebrew keyboard layout mapping to get those strings?)
4. How did you install Ubuntu to get your native language working?
 a) did you do a fresh installation or did you upgrade from a previous release?
 b) if you did a fresh installation: did you choose Arabic/Hebrew at the very beginning in the installer or did you do an English installation first and switched the language settings later?

[Islam Alshaikh إسلام الشيخ (islam-alshaikh)]

The problem fixed now! (Test it at work 8.10 64bit)

Thanks

some Info:
1- bug in openoffice.org only
2- ?
3- في = td Or any 2 Arabic chr
4- Both (Upgrade & fresh) Arabic Installation & updates

I will see this in home also.

Thank you

[Islam Alshaikh إسلام الشيخ (islam-alshaikh)]

The problem is in Ver. 2.4.1 for Ubutnu 8.04

It fixed in new ver. , but Ubuntu 8.04 is longtearm support , So, some people will using until next longterm !!

I want to add This info:

type any 2 Arabic chr then space, the layout will change to another.

Thanks

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

long term support refers to long term security support, we don't put entire new versions of openoffice into older releases.

[Beni Cherniavsky (cben)]

This also affects me now on Jaunty, OpenOffice 3.0.1.
It's an old system, upgraded for several years. 32bit.
I believe it's the first time I'm using OpenOffice from this user. System locale and user locale is Russian.

When the cursor is after any 2 Hebrew letters (after a 2-letter word, or even inside a word after 2 letters),
pressing Space, Enter or Tab changes the keyboard layout to the next layout, unless it's already English.

E.g. if I have Eng, Heb, Rus layouts, and I type " אם ", the keyboard switches to Rus layout.
If I then press Backspace (or move back) and press Space again, the keyboard switches to Eng.
Once in Eng layout, I can press space as much as I want, it stays Eng.

It's not specific to working with 3 layouts - I deleted the Heb layout, and still pressing space after 2 Hebrew letters changes layout from Rus to Eng!

It doesn't happen after 1 letter or 3 letters, only 2. Weird.

It happens with Space, Enter and Tab. Curiously, it does not happen with Ctrl+Enter or Shift+Enter.

It depends on the letters, not the language assigned to them - I tried Tools->Language and choosing another language, didn't change.

It seems to happen for any Right-To-Left language.
I added an Arabic layout to confirm the original report - it also happens after 2 Arabic letters, or ever 1 Arabic and 1 Hebrew. Same for Farsi and Tibetan, both RTL languages.
But it's not for any non-English text, because it does not happen after Russian letters.
Nor is it for any CTL language, because I checked Tamil (LTR) and it doesn't happen.

[Islam Alshaikh إسلام الشيخ (islam-alshaikh)]

OK

this problem come back with last update of 9.04

It did not come before last update

This problem coming in 8.04 , 8.10 , 9.04 , and in the last update of 9.10

this problem not in 9.10 CD-Live

I hope to fixing this problem and cut it.

Thanks

[Beni Cherniavsky (cben)]

Bug still happens on bleeding edge ubuntu karmic (9.10).
Using openoffice.org 1:3.1.1-2ubuntu4 package version.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Arne,

Can you take a look at this bug again?

Thanks,

Chris

[Islam Alshaikh إسلام الشيخ (islam-alshaikh)]

Problem not fixed with last update !

This problem is only in Open office, Just typing 2 chr & space to changing layout to English.

[Beni Cherniavsky (cben)]

I'd like to add that this bug is quite critical - it makes OpenOffice completely unacceptable for writing any RTL language!

At least in Hebrew, 2-letter words are very frequent ("to", "of", "also", "you", "them", etc.).
The layout switching constantly makes you discover that the last several words were in English gibberish instead of Hebrew, which makes typing so slow that you prefer to use any other application (and cut-and-paste in OO if you really need it).

[Islam Alshaikh إسلام الشيخ (islam-alshaikh)]

I found a solve for this problem

This Problem happen if your key change is CapsLock !!

changing your key(s) to change layout to other the problem will solved (at this time)

Thanks all

[Tombigel (tombigel)]

@Islam:
Really? This is totally weird. Yet it explains why only a bunch of us encounter it.
I'll test it when I'll get home on my Ubuntu machine.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This seems to be a duplicate of bug 227326 in that OOo directly polls the key instead of doing what the OS is set to do when you hit the key.