Ctrl+Left/Right in a right-to-left written language moves the curser incorrectly

[Haggai Eran]

Binary package hint: gedit

When writing in a right-to-left written language, such as Hebrew, the left and right keys on their keyboard change their meaning: left moves to the next character, and right moves the cursor to the previous character. This works correctly in gedit. However, when using the Ctrl modifier, Ctrl-Left should move to the next word, and Ctrl-Right should move to the previous word. This currently doesn't work in gedit. Instead Ctrl-Left/Right works the same as in English.

To test this in gedit you can copy the following Hebrew text into gedit:
משפט קצר לנסיון.
Put the cursor at the sentence beginning (which is the rightmost word. By using Home for example), and then press Ctrl-Left. Instead of moving to the next word (the middle one), the cursor just stays at the beginning. Now press Ctrl-Right. Instead of staying, the cursor moves to the next word.

Regards,
Haggai

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gedit 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 15 13:46:01 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=he_IL.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit

[Haggai Eran (haggai-eran)]

I've added gtk+2.0 to this bug, since I saw this problem also happens in many other GTK application (gwibber, empathy, Alt-F2 run dialog, tomboy, etc.)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Haggai Eran (haggai-eran)]

The upstream bug I opened turned out to be a duplicate.