<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED DUPLICATE - persian and arabic diacritics are not accessible by using arrow keys on keyboard. libreoffice ignores diacritics and does not behave with them like general letters." href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100854#c9">Comment # 9</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED DUPLICATE - persian and arabic diacritics are not accessible by using arrow keys on keyboard. libreoffice ignores diacritics and does not behave with them like general letters." href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100854">bug 100854</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com" title="zahra <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com>"> zahra</a> <pre>(In reply to Khaled Hosny from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=100854#c1">comment #1</a>) > The cursor movement uses Grapheme Clusters > (<a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries">http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries</a>) as a unit, a > base character plus a combining mark are considered one grapheme cluster so > moving the cursor forward will skip the whole cluster. > > I can’t confirm the MS Office behavior, but treating the mark as a different > unit here can be visually confusing since there will be no indication that > the cursor has moved at all (since the mark has zero advance width), so it > is a big change to do. > > I’m not sure I understand the screen reader issue clearly, are you saying > that the reader does not read the marks because the cursor skips them? I > have no experience with screen readers, unfortunately, so I don’t understand > why reading the marks would be tied to cursor movement? hello. thanks for your link. but i confirm that i dont have this problem when i used microsoft office in previous years. how should i set libreoffice to support diacritics both in character count and also when i navigate using right arrow keys? i realy wish to use libreoffice, but i only have islamic books in word format which i need writer, and i could not use libreoffice because of this problem in these years! i appreciate your help and God bless you.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>