Arabic spelling suggestions appear as square characters
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| libreoffice (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Libreoffice PPA https:/
Version: 4.4.4.3
Build ID: 40m0(Build:3)
Locale: en_GB.UTF-8
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
When writing in Arabic in Writer, spelling suggestions appear as square characters. For example, when writing the first letters of a weekday (السبت), a small pop-up which have square characters appears. When I press Enter, the weekday is inserted correctly.
So, I believe that Writer correctly recognises Arabic words but only fails to display them properly. Probably an encoding problem with displaying these pop-up spelling suggestions.
It also happens in the auto-complete pop-up.
It also happens in the Undo tooltips. When the mouse pointer is on the Undo icon, the tooltip appears as square characters instead of the Arabic word.
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote | #1 |
Same root cause as bug 1344996. Unless a fix in LibreOffice arrives sooner, this won’t be an issue anymore as the Arabic Ubuntu font support arrives (which is soon!)