Issue 15969 - [calc] forumla bar is always LTR, making editing mixed text impossible
Summary: [calc] forumla bar is always LTR, making editing mixed text impossible
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Internationalization
Classification: Code
Component: BiDi (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 Beta2
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P4 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: falko.tesch
QA Contact: issues@l10n
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Reported: 2003-06-23 22:17 UTC by sforbes
Modified: 2013-08-07 15:00 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Issue Type: FEATURE
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Description sforbes 2003-06-23 22:17:58 UTC 
the forumala bar of calc is always LTR, regardless of the cell directionality.
This makes editing mixed bidi text which already is in the cell nearly
impossible- there is no way to tell where new text will be added.
Comment 1 Dieter.Loeschky 2003-08-14 12:58:42 UTC 
DL->NN: Could you please takeover?
Comment 2 niklas.nebel 2003-08-14 13:18:37 UTC 
The input line is always LTR to allow display and editing of formulas.
Falko, is this the right behavior? If not, do we need special
treatment for formulas?
Comment 3 sforbes 2003-08-15 01:56:01 UTC 
ccing: mehlng
Comment 4 mehlng 2003-08-15 10:43:10 UTC 
confirming, I already reported this

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 14365 ***
Comment 5 mehlng 2003-08-15 10:43:41 UTC 
confirming, I already reported this
Comment 6 falko.tesch 2003-08-15 11:01:49 UTC 
I confirm: Formula bars (Writer tables and Calc) will _always_ use
LTR. This is due to an immense implementation effort and the minimal
impact it has on users.
This solution was already agreed on from Arabic side (Waleed Hosny).
Please close this one. Thx.
Comment 7 mehlng 2003-08-15 13:17:31 UTC 
I totally agree, there's almost no need to use L2R, however this is
the Right Thing to Do (TM) so I suggest setting a (late) fix date to
fix that.
Text engine should *always* IMHO include an option for R2L jsut like
MSWord's behaviour - click Ctrl-Shift and you're in buisness.
Comment 8 sforbes 2003-08-15 17:29:24 UTC 
>there's almost no need to use R2L

As many people use spread sheets as a "poor man's database", and since
even without that colum titles tend to be text (and thus possibly
contain RTL), I would argue that the need is very much there.

>Text engine should *always* IMHO include an option for R2L jsut ike
>MSWord's behaviour - click Ctrl-Shift and you're in buisness

agreed.
Comment 9 Dieter.Loeschky 2003-08-20 11:02:16 UTC 
DL->FT: Please take care of this issue until we create a specification
on this.
Comment 10 falko.tesch 2003-08-22 11:01:37 UTC 
Reassigned to office later, feature and P4.
Comment 11 falko.tesch 2003-10-15 10:59:54 UTC 
The formular bar stays LTR even in RTL environments.
No change planned.
Comment 12 falko.tesch 2003-10-15 11:00:05 UTC 
closed
Comment 13 sforbes 2003-12-03 14:06:20 UTC 
* This bug has been mentioned in few of the press reviews of OOo.

IMO, we should consider re-opening
Comment 14 ypz88 2009-06-07 13:52:17 UTC 
I was very surprised to determine that this bug is closed. This is a very
frustrating issue when working with mixed text.
Please consider re-open it.. Thanks.
Comment 15 ypz88 2009-06-07 13:52:27 UTC 
I was very surprised to determine that this bug is closed. This is a very
frustrating issue when working with mixed text.
Please consider re-open it.. Thanks.
Comment 16 alan 2009-06-30 07:16:39 UTC 
I also frequently come across this problem in my personal use of OOo. I disagree
with the assessment that it has minimal impact on users.