Hebrew Diacritics
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inkscape |
Confirmed
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hello, recently I gor some reports about misaligned diacritics in Hebrew,
I was unable to generate a screenshot but I have seen this happen.
This bug has several aspects:
1. I cannot enter the diacritics in the accepted ways, either by having Caps Lock selected and then press Shift+numbers or -=\.
2. I cannot use their key combination (Alt+0206 which is Maqaf for example).
So I wrote the text in an external editor (Notepad) and copied and pasted the text in
The diacritics were all misaligned.
Please notice, this is a Windows specific bug, in Linux it works perfectly while using the LyX keyboard (Inserting diacritics with this layout only requires pressing Shift with one of the letters, this layout does not have English Capital letters support at all, you need to switch layout in order to type in English)
Meaning that there's no need to move to the 3rd selection mode in order to insert diacritics.
I would love it if someone could please confirm this bug under Windows, these errors are possibly Arabic related as well.
I will try and provide screenshots as fast as I can.
In the meanwhile I can provide a Hebrew word with diacritics and an Arab word with diacritics:
Hebrew - בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ (Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'arets - In the beginning God created heaven and earth) (Holly Bible/New Testament)
Arabic - بِسْمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ (b-ismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm - In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful) (Holly Qur'an)
Kind regards,
Yaron Shahrabani
Misalignment confirmed on Windows XP, Inkscape 0.47 and bzr rev. 9369.
Reproduced with Arial, TNR and Lucida Unicode.
Not reproduced with OpenOffice, on the same computer.