<div dir="rtl"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Hi,</font></div>

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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Starting with version LibreOffice 3.6, we had some issues with Arabic text rendering in LibreOffice. These issues got worse starting LO 4.0. </font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I hoped that patches which some developers provided [1], may fix the bugs. But right now I'm using LO v4.1.2.3 and nearly most of the problems that have been fixed in OpenOffice versions prior to 3.0 are now visible again.</span></div>

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<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">For example these are serious and were all fixed prior to OpenOffice 3.0:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px">

<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">1. Text rendering cuts and continues out of the border. (attached picture 1)</font></div>

<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">2. Kashida placement in wrong position, in the free space between words (attached picture 2)</font></div>

<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">3. Losing paragraph direction, making RTL paragraph LTR. (attached picture 2)</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px">

<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">These not happen for every font, but using some popular fonts, these issues are visible, for example using "Droid Arabic Naskh".</span><br>

</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Some users reported that they were forced to downgrade LibreOffice to avoid these issuses. </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We were working on localization before these problems, but right now it is very important to have a correct rendering engine before continuing UI translation.</span></div>

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<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Considering the fact that many languages like Persian and Urdu </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">use Arabic script,</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> I think fixing bugs related to Arabic text rendering is important.</span></div>

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<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hossein</span></div>

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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif">[1] <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4c4b9db8bbaed7acd064a4015fabe784c4fbca21" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4c4b9db8bbaed7acd064a4015fabe784c4fbca21</a></font></div>

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