Arabic punctuation in OpenOffice.org 1.9

[Leston Buell <bulbul at fizzylogic dot com>]

Hello. I am typing in Arabic in OOo 1.9.113. I can't get the punctuation 
to come out right. I get a Latin comma instead of an Arabic comma, even 
though the paragraph is right-to-left and even though i changed the 
locale to Arabic: Egypt. I was checking through my mail archives and 
even notice that i sent a message about this problem to this same list 
in 2003, for OOo 1.1, but never got a response.

If anyone knows how to get a comma to appear correctly in Arabic in OOo, 
please let me know. I have opened the following bug in IssueZilla:

<http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=53121>

Thanks!

Bulbul

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: punctuation problem in Arabic with Mandrake 9.1, KDE, 
andOpenOffice.org 1.1
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:30:40 -0700
From: Leston Buell <bulbul at fizzylogic dot com>
Reply-To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
To: general at arabeyes dot org

Hi. Can anyone tell me what to do to be able to use OpenOffice.org 1.1
in KDE on Mandrake 9.1 in Arabic? I think i've made all of the relevant
parameter choices in OOo and in KDE. I can type normally in Arabic,
except that the punctuation comes out as if i were typing in English
(wrong size, question mark backwards, etc.).

I am not concerned about getting the entire interface in Arabic, i'd
just like the ability to type the occasional letter in Arabic with
correct punctuation and numbers.

Thanks!

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