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<div>Looking at tdf#66212 - Hebrew Numbering incorrect above value ten,</div>
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<div>First of all, the current behavior of the 'à á â' option is rather useless as I have never seen this numbering used in practice (and yes, I spend my day reading Hebrew texts). I will note however that MS Office supports this numbering as well, so it may
be used in some context that I am unaware of.</div>
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<div>Secondly, I totaly agree with comment #8.</div>
<div>1. The rendering of a document should not depend on the users locale</div>
<div>2. All numbering systems should be usable regardless off the users preferred locale.</div>
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<div>That said, I can hardly understand the point of the "native numbering" menu item. I feel that it is confusing, non-intuitive and should be removed entirely. MS Office does not have such an option and I don't think anyone misses it.</div>
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<div>As far as fixing the issue goes - I can see a more than 1 way to fix it.</div>
<div>- The easy way:</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Change the behavior of the 'à á â' item - as "Maxim Monastirsky" states in comment #3 "The Item 'à á â' should act the same as 'Native Numbering'+Hebrew locale".</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>pros: easy to implement - will change only 2 lines of one file, namely "i18npool\source\defaultnumberingprovider\defaultnumberingprovider.cxx". Will probably also allow the removal of a few unnecessary
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>cons: 1. changes the semantics of a setting that people may be using. 2. the meaning of this option is not readily apparent from the menu item. 3. will break compatibility with MS Office ODF import.</div>
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<div>- The MS way: </div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>as per https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj671735%28v=office.12%29.aspx, MS seem to have added support for another Hebrew numbering format that LibreOffice does not support, it serializes
to odf xml as "à, é, ÷," and is shown in menus as 'à...é, éà...ë'. This format provides the behavior that people generally want when they choose native Hebrew numbers.</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>pros: 1. avoiding all cons of first method. 2. retain support for old behavior for those who really want it.</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>cons: Adding a new number format to LibreOffice seems to involves more work. It will involve changes to more files - including the XML parsing/serialization code.</div>
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<div>(Can anyone provide me with pointers to all files that must be updated in order to add a new number format?)</div>
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<div>All comments welcome.</div>
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