document viewer search problem in right to left languages

[Mohammad]

Hi
when I use the search functionality in document viewer, it searches the letters as if they are written left to right. That is not a problem in english or any left to right language. However, this is a problem in right to left languages. I used it particularly with arabic but I guess it is the same for any other right to left language.
In order for the program to detect a right to left word, the word needs to be written in reverse in the search box.
I will give an english example since the words are easier to understand by everyone but the problem actually only occurs with right to left languages.
if I want to search for the word 'hello', I need to type it in reverse as 'olleh' in the search box.

I am using ubuntu 12.04.

Thank you in advance

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[PHP Learner (learnerphp)]

I have this problem with my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and also a similar problem exist when text is copied from right-to-left documents: order of letters are correct in each words, but the words them selves are arranged in reverse order. Is such a way that @Mohammad explained, if you copy a sentence such as "hello to world" and paste it (in any program), it will paste "world to hello". But this problem is present only in right-to-left dosument. A real example is "سلام بر همه" is pasted as "همه بر سلام"!

[PHP Learner (learnerphp)]

It is passed more that two years from @Mohammad report, but no solution!!!

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

It looks like this was fixed upstream (and it's not an evince issue, but a poppler one).

Patch: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=119908
Full discussion: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55977

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the current version includes those changes