Bug 79862

Summary: Arabic-Indic digits (U+660 - U+669) are not recognizedas numeric data in kspread
Product: [Applications] calligrasheets Reporter: Munzir Taha <munzirtaha>
Component: generalAssignee: Laurent Montel <montel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: caslav.ilic
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mandrake RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Munzir Taha 2004-04-18 05:26:18 UTC 
Version:           Koffice 1.3 (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
OS:          Linux

Arabic-Indic digits (U+660 - U+669) are not recognized as numeric data in kspread and hence we can't do any mathematical calcualtions based on them. We can't add, subtract, ... these numbers.

These numbers are widely used in Arabic countries and it's very essential to be supported.
Comment 1 Sebastian Sauer 2006-12-02 10:34:04 UTC 
Related KDE-Thread "QLocale for float Arabic Numbers";
http://lists.kde.org/?t=114906958400001&r=1&w=2

Seems it would be needed to extend in http://websvn.kde.org/branches/koffice/1.6/koffice/kspread/valueparser.cc?view=markup e.g. readNumber to use QLocal::system().toDouble() ...
Comment 2 Stefan Nikolaus 2008-08-21 13:15:16 UTC 
Check again with the upcoming 2.x series, please.
Comment 3 Chusslove Illich 2009-05-04 22:54:06 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 178149 ***