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Bug 37103

Summary:	BIDI - Selecting an Arabic text results in messing up the text.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Nagia El Haraki <nharaki>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Felipe Heidrich <eclipse.felipe>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, rasham, snorthov
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
Whiteboard:

Description Nagia El Haraki

2003-04-30 13:16:18 EDT

Selection using Ctrl + <arrow> highlights the wrong text. Even when the right 
text is selected (using mouse), the highlighted parts are messed up and shows 
rubbish.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2008-04-17 10:35:15 EDT

Looks good to me in Java editor (which is LTR) but strange in standard text editor.

Comment 2 Felipe Heidrich

2008-04-17 14:06:54 EDT

Version 2.1 ? That is very old eclipse. We didn't support bidi on gtk back in 2.1.

More info needed:
Is the text bidi (arabic+english mix) ?
What is the text ?
What Editor (JavaEditor / TextEditor) ?
Version of Eclipse ?
Version of GTK/Pango/Cairo ?
Version of Linux ?
Locale ?
Run eclipse with -nl ar or -dir rtl ?
Screenshot would be good. Thanks.

Comment 3 Felipe Heidrich

2008-06-04 15:13:29 EDT

closing