Arabic typing words with symbol ﻻ are not joint

[Me!]

Hi

 The characters "ﻻ" , "ﻵ" , "ﻷ" , "ﻹ" are not connect with previous connectible character

Examples:
 "أهﻻ"
"عﻻلي"
must be Like this
"أهلا"
"علالي"

thank you
 شكراً

[Thomas Zander (zander-kde)]

Using arabic keyboard map inserts wrong ligature;
see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137632

[Wearabnet (wearabnet)]

Thomas,

Thanks for making the proper report in the right place.

Could you engineers fix it in the next release?

Thank you,

-Abdullah

[Mahmoud Kassem (mmkassem)]

I can confirm this bug under Feisty, the Arabic characters consisting of 2 characters( ex. ﻻ ﻷ ﻹ ﻵ) are disconnected with the previous character (the character on the right)
when you write:
ا ه ل ا
it is shown as:
اهلا

However when you write:
ا ه ﻻ
It is shown as:
اهﻻ
(not connected)
Excepted result:
اهلا

Version information:
Ubuntu Feisty

[Mahmoud Kassem (mmkassem)]

The Arabic characters consisting of 2 characters( ex. ﻻ ﻷ ﻹ ﻵ) are disconnected with the previous character (the character on the right)
when you write:
ا ه ل ا
it is shown as:
اهلا

However when you write:
ا ه ﻻ
It is shown as:
اهﻻ
(not connected)
Excepted result:
اهلا

Reported also in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/63310

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys. Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

[Islam Alshaikh إسلام الشيخ (islam-alshaikh)]

Basicly
replace the chr "ﻻ" in b with "ل"+"ا" in g+h
replace the chr "ﻵ" in B with "ل"+"آ" in g+N
replace the chr "ﻷ" in G with "ل"+"أ" in g+H
replace the chr "ﻹ" in T with "ل"+"إ" in g+Y

It is a small bug , But a hug problem for the typers!

Thank you

[Mahmoud Kassem (mmkassem)]

This bug will get fixed indirectly if #4575 gets implemented since these keys will present 2 characters version each, who are currently joint correctly.

[Mahmoud Kassem (mmkassem)]

It is not as small as you think, This bug is dependent on fixing https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/62587
Your suggestion is already know in:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8195
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4575

This is a feature to add since the code does not support the feature of 1 key to more than 1 character (as reported in the bug reports in FreeDesktop.org). As much as I understand too, adding this feature will not fix previously written documents too.

I do not see why it is a huge problem for the users, use the same replace concept when typing for now.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Is this still an issue in Jaunty?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[Ahmed Aljabry (mr-aljabry)]

Hey All. I'm a big ubuntu fan and I've been facing this problem as well. I'm not a programmer or anything, I'm just a user. I currently have Ubuntu 11.04. Sadly, the problem continues over the years.

Mahmoud Kassem
"I do not see why it is a huge problem for the users, use the same replace concept when typing for now."

I know your point, but it is very inconvenient. Especially if you want to encourage more Arabs to get into linux realm. Trust me, such a small bug has a huge impact on the visual attraction. You don't want to make lame Windows be better, do you? ^_^

Anyway, I'm here to confirm the continue of this issue.

[Ajax-a (ajax-a)]

Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not
obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.