Bug 156380 - Wrong selection area by text-editor-like selection tool in RTL texts
Summary: Wrong selection area by text-editor-like selection tool in RTL texts
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.13.2
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
URL:
Keywords: rtl
: 200005 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 128609
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-01-22 13:50 UTC by Emil Sedgh
Modified: 2022-10-09 06:36 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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2008-01-22 13:58 UTC, Emil Sedgh 		Details
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Description Emil Sedgh 2008-01-22 13:51:00 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Text-editor-like selection tool selects wrong text in RTL texts.I will attach an image to describe.
Comment 1 Emil Sedgh 2008-01-22 13:58:18 UTC 
Created attachment 23198 [details]
Describing the bug

The red circle #1 shows the starting point of the selection and #2 is the
ending point.The red line is the area that should be selected.
Comment 2 Diego Iastrubni 2008-01-25 17:13:23 UTC 
I am not sure this will be possible to fix this bug, as PDF and PS contain Arabic and Hebrew in visual mode.
Comment 3 Diego Iastrubni 2008-08-13 09:45:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128609 ***
Comment 4 Pino Toscano 2008-08-18 20:48:09 UTC 
Diego, this is bug is different, as it involves also the direction of the text highlight tool; this is why I'm reopening it.
Although, this is related to that, and most probably it depends on the resolution of that one, thus that's why I'm adding #128609 as dependency.
Comment 5 Pino Toscano 2009-07-13 12:07:59 UTC 
*** Bug 200005 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Dotan Cohen 2009-09-18 02:36:16 UTC 
Confirmed in KDE 4.3.1
Comment 7 jordonwii 2011-12-20 02:31:32 UTC 
This appears to be a duplicate of bug 165001 , which has been fixed already.
Comment 8 jordonwii 2011-12-20 03:34:38 UTC 
Correction: The above bug is for Kwrite and not Okular. Sorry. I am, however, able to reproduce on KDE 4.7.3.
Comment 9 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-12-23 11:26:10 UTC 
Thank you for triaging.
Comment 10 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 23:59:31 UTC 
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Comment 11 Yaron Shahrabani 2022-10-03 06:50:10 UTC 
I'm still running into this issue with Okular 22.08.0 on Manjaro KDE 22.0.0.
Comment 12 Yaron Shahrabani 2022-10-09 06:36:45 UTC 
Mozilla's PDF.js managed to handle it somehow, I remember there are some issues with printing but not with screen display and search.