[Bug 46747] New: Arabic letters are not connected in MS Office 2013
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 Bug ID: 46747 Summary: Arabic letters are not connected in MS Office 2013 Product: Wine Version: 4.2 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org Reporter: akram_ma(a)hotmail.com Distribution: --- Created attachment 63748 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=63748 MS Word 2013 in ar_YE.UTF-8 locale I did a clean prefix as follows created Win 7 32bit Then installed from WineTricks: Core Fonts, Tahoma Font, msxml6, riched20, usp10 and Added reg key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Wine\\Direct3D] "MaxVersionGL"=dword:00030002 Then installed Office 2013 Pro (Arabic Version) Installation went fine with one minor problem: I cannot customize installation. Once I hit the down arrow to show drop down menu to customize which component to choose from. Once I hit to show, it drops down and disappear in half a second. I was able to run all programs except: OneNote shows a message cannot continue please install Windows Desktop Experience Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook run fine so far. One major problem with all running applications is Arabic representation: Word Arabic letters are not connected at all and are typed from left to right as if English. Others Other apps type Arabic in the right way with no problem. All Arabic letters are not connected in main menu and sub menus in all apps. Letter are typed from right to left correctly but not connected If I switch the locale language to Arabic for example ar_YE.UTF-8: Word Arabic letters are still not connected but word direction is fine (rtl); however, English is typed from right to left Others Other apps work fine. All Menus still have the same problem I attached a picture of Word 2013 in ar_YE.UTF-8 locale. English words (This is a book) are type backward, and All Arabic letters are not connected, although some tips boxes and sub sub menus are fine. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #1 from Akram <akram_ma(a)hotmail.com> --- Created attachment 63749 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=63749 Mail Merge Wizard (at left) is seen as if a mirror -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #2 from Akram <akram_ma(a)hotmail.com> --- Created attachment 63750 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=63750 PowerPoint 2013: Arabic text is fine but menus are not -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|major |normal --- Comment #3 from Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> --- That's because shaping is not implemented in DirectWrite. We have bug 44826 for that. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #4 from Akram <akram_ma(a)hotmail.com> --- bug 44826 is a one year old one. Is a fix planned for it? -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #5 from Akram <akram_ma(a)hotmail.com> --- All applications except Word work fine (except the menu problem). Perhaps this is an issue with Word not Direct 3D. Menu problem effect all Apps but Word does not write Arabic correctly. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 Ahmed Elsayed <ahmed.com(a)protonmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ahmed.com(a)protonmail.com -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #6 from Ahmed Elsayed <ahmed.com(a)protonmail.com> --- I use word 2010, and the Arabic language connected well when I remove Arabic from the language settings, and use "right to left direction", and "align text left", but you will not be able to use Proofing tools, and to change numbers to "context" or "Hindi". -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #7 from Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> --- (In reply to Ahmed Elsayed from comment #6)
I use word 2010, and the Arabic language connected well when I remove Arabic from the language settings, and use "right to left direction", and "align text left", but you will not be able to use Proofing tools, and to change numbers to "context" or "Hindi".
Office 2010 is using Uniscribe, Office 2013/2016/2019 are using DirectWrite; 2010 results are not very relevant to newer versions. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #8 from Ahmed Elsayed <ahmed.com(a)protonmail.com> --- (In reply to Nikolay Sivov from comment #7)
(In reply to Ahmed Elsayed from comment #6)
I use word 2010, and the Arabic language connected well when I remove Arabic from the language settings, and use "right to left direction", and "align text left", but you will not be able to use Proofing tools, and to change numbers to "context" or "Hindi".
Office 2010 is using Uniscribe, Office 2013/2016/2019 are using DirectWrite; 2010 results are not very relevant to newer versions.
I didn't know that. Thanks for your explanation. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #9 from Ahmed Elsayed <ahmed.com(a)protonmail.com> --- I use Linux for more than 3 years, and Arabic support is still the same. I don't have any problem using any application in English language, but MS Office Word is the only program that it can't be used with one language. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #10 from Akram <akram_ma(a)hotmail.com> --- In reply to Ahmed Elsayed from comment #6. I tried Ahmed's solution but it is still the same problem. I hope Wine Team solve this issue. All applications of Office 2013 support Arabic except Word 2013. It does not connect letters and type it in reverse. OneNote does not launch. Very similar situation with Office 2010. This time OneNote 2010 works. Only Word 2010 and 2013 have problem with Arabic letter. Further more, if I open Arabic docx file. Word display the content correctly. But you cannot type Arabic. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46747 --- Comment #11 from Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> --- We have some fairly complete support for Arabic shaping in DirectWrite, that should help Office 2013+. E.g. static texts on ribbon bar should render correctly now I think. Typing Arabic text in document area could still be problematic, it does not depend just on shaping support. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
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