| Summary: | RTL annotations text appears reversed with characters separated | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] okular | Reporter: | medin <med.medin.2014> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Okular developers <okular-devel> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | AnasSdiq, eido.askayo, kde, sh.yaron |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | rtl |
| Version First Reported In: | 22.12.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Manjaro | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | RTL annotations text appears reversed with characters separated | ||
1y later, nothing changed (In reply to Anas Mohammad Siddiq from comment #1) > 1y later, nothing changed https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/595 might be relevant, but needs someone with RTL involvement (In reply to Sune Vuorela from comment #2) > (In reply to Anas Mohammad Siddiq from comment #1) > > 1y later, nothing changed > > https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/595 might be > relevant, but needs someone with RTL involvement the pr was 2 years ago do they need developers or something? There's a lot of conversation going on in the MR, I can help you compile it yourself and test it if you wish. (In reply to Anas Mohammad Siddiq from comment #3) > (In reply to Sune Vuorela from comment #2) > > (In reply to Anas Mohammad Siddiq from comment #1) > > > 1y later, nothing changed > > > > https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/595 might be > > relevant, but needs someone with RTL involvement > > the pr was 2 years ago > do they need developers or something? We always needs developers. There was found flaws in the MR, some needed changes in rest of Okular to properly fix. That has happened, now we need the MR adapted. And please don't hold you breath for me doing it. Confirming this issue persists on modern systems. The scope is wider than just annotations and critically breaks interactive PDF form filling. This appears to be the correct master bug to track this, as it has the MR linked. I found several duplicates pointing to the same core RTL rendering problem, some going back over a decade: * #469359 (Arabic text) * #454552 (Typewriter tool) * #184399 (Copy/paste) * #156380 (Text selection) As a fellow dev, happy to help test any patches or provide more specific diagnostics. **Repro Environment:** - Okular: 25.04.1 - OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS / GNOME 46.0 (In reply to Eido A. from comment #6) > Confirming this issue persists on modern systems. > > The scope is wider than just annotations and critically breaks interactive > PDF form filling. This appears to be the correct master bug to track this, > as it has the MR linked. > > I found several duplicates pointing to the same core RTL rendering problem, > some going back over a decade: > > * #469359 (Arabic text) > * #454552 (Typewriter tool) > * #184399 (Copy/paste) > * #156380 (Text selection) > > As a fellow dev, happy to help test any patches or provide more specific > diagnostics. > > **Repro Environment:** > - Okular: 25.04.1 > - OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS / GNOME 46.0 so in other words, a rewrite is needed, right? (In reply to Anas Mohammad Siddiq from comment #7) > (In reply to Eido A. from comment #6) > > Confirming this issue persists on modern systems. > > > > The scope is wider than just annotations and critically breaks interactive > > PDF form filling. This appears to be the correct master bug to track this, > > as it has the MR linked. > > > > I found several duplicates pointing to the same core RTL rendering problem, > > some going back over a decade: > > > > * #469359 (Arabic text) > > * #454552 (Typewriter tool) > > * #184399 (Copy/paste) > > * #156380 (Text selection) > > > > As a fellow dev, happy to help test any patches or provide more specific > > diagnostics. > > > > **Repro Environment:** > > - Okular: 25.04.1 > > - OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS / GNOME 46.0 > > so in other words, a rewrite is needed, right? Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, that's exactly my conclusion too. A rewrite seems to be the only path forward given the stalled MR. Here's hoping a developer can pick this up soon. I hope so, but it's highly unlikely since it's a rewrite of the program Sent from Proton Mail Android -------- Original Message -------- On 14/6/2025 9:40 م, Eido A. <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465681 > > --- Comment #8 from Eido A. <eido.askayo@gmail.com> --- > (In reply to Anas Mohammad Siddiq from comment #7) > > (In reply to Eido A. from comment #6) > > > Confirming this issue persists on modern systems. > > > > > > The scope is wider than just annotations and critically breaks interactive > > > PDF form filling. This appears to be the correct master bug to track this, > > > as it has the MR linked. > > > > > > I found several duplicates pointing to the same core RTL rendering problem, > > > some going back over a decade: > > > > > > * #469359 (Arabic text) > > > * #454552 (Typewriter tool) > > > * #184399 (Copy/paste) > > > * #156380 (Text selection) > > > > > > As a fellow dev, happy to help test any patches or provide more specific > > > diagnostics. > > > > > > **Repro Environment:** > > > - Okular: 25.04.1 > > > - OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS / GNOME 46.0 > > > > so in other words, a rewrite is needed, right? > > Thanks for the quick reply. > Yes, that's exactly my conclusion too. > > A rewrite seems to be the only path forward given the stalled MR. > > Here's hoping a developer can pick this up soon. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are on the CC list for the bug. |
Created attachment 156203 [details] RTL annotations text appears reversed with characters separated Typing annotation in Arabic shows the order of characters reversed and separated. See attached image.