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Bug 232450

Summary:

Table and crosstab are not drawn from right to left in Arabic locale.

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Maggie Shen <lshen>

Component:

BIRT

Assignee:

Birt-ReportDesigner <Birt-ReportDesigner-inbox>

Status:

VERIFIED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

wyan, zqian

Version:

2.3.0

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

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screenshot2	none

Description Maggie Shen

2008-05-16 01:57:59 EDT

description:
Table and crosstab are not drawn from right to left in Arabic locale.

build id:
2.3.0 v20080516-0630

steps to reproduce:
1. Start eclipse in Arabic locale, using command -nl ar_AB.
2. Insert a table and a crosstab to layout. See that columns are displayed right-to-left.(screenshot1)
3. Preview.

Expected result:
Table columns should be displayed right-to-left. Crosstab row header should be placed on the right-hand-side.

Actual result:
Table columns are displayed left-to-right. Crosstab row header are placed on the left-hand-side.Please see attached screenshot2.

Comment 1 Maggie Shen

2008-05-16 01:58:49 EDT

Created attachment 100600 [details]
screenshot1

Comment 2 Maggie Shen

2008-05-16 01:59:31 EDT

Created attachment 100601 [details]
screenshot2

Comment 3 Wei Yan

2008-05-17 01:52:09 EDT

Should the UI set the RTL flag in the design automatically if the file is
created in a LTR Eclipse?

Comment 4 Zhiqiang Qian

2008-05-18 23:13:12 EDT

Bidi UI support is not done yet, for now, user need manually set up the RTL property.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 225547 ***

Comment 5 Maggie Shen

2008-05-19 22:59:44 EDT

verified.