[Upstream] Using numbers with RTL text breaks underline

[Shimi Chen]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org
Binary package hint: libreoffice

1)
Natty:
lsb_release -rd
apDescription: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

Maverick:
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

2)
Natty:
apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 100
/var/lib/dpkg/status

Maverick:
apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2~maverick1
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2~maverick1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2~maverick1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen is when one opens via the Terminal:

cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/725792/+attachment/1981833/+files/underlinebreak.odt && loimpress -nologo underlinebreak.odt

all the characters on one line that are marked underlined have one, continuous underline.

4) What happens instead is that the underline breaks after a number.

WORKAROUND: Use Abiword.

Original Reporter Comments:
-Write some underlined text in an RTL language(tested Hebrew and Arabic)
-Write a number(still in the same underline)
Result: the underline breaks.
This does not happen in English.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: openoffice.org-writer 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 27 00:18:21 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101008.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

To reproduce:
-Open LibreOffice Writer
-Write some underlined text in an RTL language(tested Hebrew and Arabic)
-Write a number(still in the same underline)
Result: the underline breaks.
This does not happen in English.

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

To reproduce:
-Open LibreOffice Writer
-Write some underlined text in an RTL language(tested Hebrew and Arabic)
-Write a number(still in the same underline)
Result: the underline breaks.
This does not happen in English.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Shimi Chen, thank you for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Could you please attach a Writer document that demonstrates this problem?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Shimi Chen, could you please attach a Writer document that demonstrates this problem?

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

Created attachment 45268
Some underlined Hebrew text with a number.

The underline is broken before each number.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Shimi Chen, could you please attach a Writer document that demonstrates this problem?

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

Created attachment 45268
Some underlined Hebrew text with a number.

The underline is broken before each number.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Shimi Chen, this issue is reproducible via the Terminal:

cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/725792/+attachment/1981833/+files/underlinebreak.odt && loimpress -nologo underlinebreak.odt

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Marking to Confirmed.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2~maverick1
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2~maverick1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2~maverick1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Kendy-m (kendy-m)]

This must be a kind of off-by-one error ;-) When I zoom it, it is always one pixel thick; and in some zoom levels the gap disappears completely...

[Kendy-k (kendy-k)]

This must be a kind of off-by-one error ;-) When I zoom it, it is always one pixel thick; and in some zoom levels the gap disappears completely...

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Shimi Chen, since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as Triaged and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

I would like to point out that it's not just a zoom issue. Even if the interface is set to a zoom level that does not break the underline, when the document is printed the underline is always broken, which leads to an unprofessional looking documents.

[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

I would like to point out that it's not just a zoom issue. Even if the interface is set to a zoom level that does not break the underline, when the document is printed the underline is always broken, which leads to an unprofessional looking documents.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

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[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

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[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

Still happens in 3.5.0 beta 2, changing to status NEW.

[Lior Kaplan (kaplan)]

Still happens in 3.5.0 beta 2, changing to status NEW.

[Aalayed (aalayed)]

still broken in 3.6.4.3

[Aalayed (aalayed)]

still broken in 3.6.4.3

[julien2412 (serval2412-6)]

Abdulaziz: I propose you to keep on the discussion you began on dev mailing list: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/crash-in-master-td4070134.html
here.

So, here the information you brought:
-you work under linux Ubuntu.
-you built from source (last git pull in 13 Aug)
-new LO profile.

Could you try to retrieve a backtrace by following this link: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport/Debug_Information#GNU.2FLinux:_How_to_get_a_backtrace ?
Ideally, it could be very useful to have all debug in console + symbols in bt, could you add in your autogen.inpu, if not already there this:
--enable-dbgutil
(you'll need to run "make clean" and it'll take more space but it may worth it).

Khaled: I thought you might be interested in this tracker so I put you on cc.

[julien2412 (serval2412-6)]

Abdulaziz: I propose you to keep on the discussion you began on dev mailing list: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/crash-in-master-td4070134.html
here.

So, here the information you brought:
-you work under linux Ubuntu.
-you built from source (last git pull in 13 Aug)
-new LO profile.

Could you try to retrieve a backtrace by following this link: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport/Debug_Information#GNU.2FLinux:_How_to_get_a_backtrace ?
Ideally, it could be very useful to have all debug in console + symbols in bt, could you add in your autogen.inpu, if not already there this:
--enable-dbgutil
(you'll need to run "make clean" and it'll take more space but it may worth it).

Khaled: I thought you might be interested in this tracker so I put you on cc.

[Eyalroz (eyalroz)]

Seeing this bug with Win7 on X86-64, with v. 4.1.2.3 release.

I've increased the severity based on Shimi's comment #4.

[Eyalroz (eyalroz)]

Seeing this bug with Win7 on X86-64, with v. 4.1.2.3 release.

I've increased the severity based on Shimi's comment #4.

[Aalayed (aalayed)]

 Julien Nabet :
see this https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69510

[Aalayed (aalayed)]

 Julien Nabet :
see this https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69510

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[Shimi Chen (shimi-chen)]

Using LibreOffice 4.4.1.2 Arch Linux build-2.
Underline still breaks as described in original report.
However, the break seems now to be smaller than the time it was reported. It seems hardly noticeable when the document is printed but still appears vividly inside Writer.

[Alexander (alex-polkovnik)]

Also break in underluned when using non-break space.
LO: 4.4.3.2
ID: 88805f81e9fe61362df02b9941de8e38a9b5fd16
Locale: ru_RU
Win 8.1 x64

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[Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny)]

Still an issue.

[Omer Zak (w1-0)]

Still happens in:

Version: 5.4.2.2.0+
Build ID: 1:5.4.2-3~bpo9+1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.9; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2;
Locale: en-US (en_US.utf8); Calc: group

OS: Debian 64bit Stretch (Debian 9.2, with some backported packages)

[Eyalroz (eyalroz)]

Seeing this with LO 6.0.2.1 on GNU/Linux.

However, the manifestation is slightly different: I see breaks in the underlining: between בשפת and RTL, between מספר and 8, between וגם and 7 - but I DON'T see a break between מספר and 12, nor after the 12.

[Eyalroz (eyalroz)]

Please also post a PDF of the incorrect rendering to compare against.

[Eyalroz (eyalroz)]

Created attachment 144948
Incorrect rendering with LO 6.1.1.2

Posting a rendering with LO 6.1.1.2 build 5d19a1bfa650b796764388cd8b33a5af1f5baa1b - as per the description in my earlier comment.

(so, obviously, the bug still manifests with 6.1.1.2)

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

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[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

Synchronising bug status with upstream.

[Eyalroz (eyalroz)]

Still seeing this issue manifest with:

Version: 6.4.0.3
Build ID: b0a288ab3d2d4774cb44b62f04d5d28733ac6df8
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;
Locale: he-IL (en_IL); UI-Language: en-US

However! Different fonts present somewhat different behavior, in the sense that not all breaks appear. Specifically, if you change the font in attachment 45268 (Simchi Chen's attachment from 2011) to David CLM, the break before the number 12 is gone.

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[Stephane-guillou-i (stephane-guillou-i)]

Still breaking the underline at numbers in a recent build:

Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 2b093d27b7e6f231512920f20089fcac291b021f
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

[Khaled-k (khaled-k)]

*** Bug 155623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Khaled-k (khaled-k)]

This seems to be a more general issue, if one mixes RTL with LTR text or CTL with Asian or Latin, there will be a gap. My guess when the text is split into different portions the underline can be a little bit short (probably because of rounding).

[Hossein-7 (hossein-7)]

(In reply to خالد حسني from comment #25)
> This seems to be a more general issue, if one mixes RTL with LTR text or CTL
> with Asian or Latin, there will be a gap. My guess when the text is split
> into different portions the underline can be a little bit short (probably
> because of rounding).
Might be the case, because size of the gap changes in different zoom levels, and it is something like one pixel or so.

(In reply to خالد حسني from comment #24)
> *** Bug 155623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think the above bug is different, because the gap is much bigger compared to this one, and it would be hard to say that is because of rounding.

[Khaled-k (khaled-k)]

(In reply to Hossein from comment #26)
> (In reply to خالد حسني from comment #25)
> > This seems to be a more general issue, if one mixes RTL with LTR text or CTL
> > with Asian or Latin, there will be a gap. My guess when the text is split
> > into different portions the underline can be a little bit short (probably
> > because of rounding).
> Might be the case, because size of the gap changes in different zoom levels,
> and it is something like one pixel or so.

Indeed.

> (In reply to خالد حسني from comment #24)
> > *** Bug 155623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> I think the above bug is different, because the gap is much bigger compared
> to this one, and it would be hard to say that is because of rounding.

You are right! I opened the file again and it looks very different than what I saw when I closed as duplicated. I wonder if I opened a different file by mistake.

[Khaled-k (khaled-k)]

*** Bug 103643 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Khaled-k (khaled-k)]

*** Bug 77279 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***