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title="NEW - RTL: Copy/Paste Arabic results in reverse order of Arabic phrases after pasting"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106805">106805</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>RTL: Copy/Paste Arabic results in reverse order of Arabic phrases after pasting
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<th>Product</th>
<td>poppler
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>poppler-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>gpoo@gnome.org
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<pre>As reported in <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/489">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/489</a>
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Hello,
When I copy phrases from Arabic PDFs and then past it anywhere , the order of
words becomes reverse.For example when I copy
" بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم "
then past it anywhere it becomes
" الرحيم الرحمن الله بسم "
For more explaining - in English - If I copy "Hello Ali" the result after
pasting is "Ali Hello" .
Contrary to English, Arabic is written from right to left.
You can download a document which has the same Arabic phrase
"بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم" from the following link
<a href="http://www.gulfup.com/?tCcbsP">http://www.gulfup.com/?tCcbsP</a>
And If you like in the following link you can find several Arabic PDFs
<a href="http://librebooks.org/">http://librebooks.org/</a>
```
The first link does not work. However, I tried with a random book from the the
second one (<a href="http://librebooks.org/">http://librebooks.org/</a>) and it is reproducible.
It may be related to <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - textList() reverse characters order for Arabic"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=105015">Bug 105015</a>, although the reverse text in that report is
per character. Selecting/Copy/Paste is per word.
At last but not least, I tested it with poppler-glib-demo, but I am filing this
issue to general as I notice the RTL support is lacking across frontends.</pre>
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