[Okular-devel] Review Request 125442: [okular] fix Arabic & Hebrew search

[Fahad Al-Saidi]

> On July 21, 2016, 9:18 a.m., Olivier Churlaud wrote:
> > Is the "future work" a lot to do? Because if is part of solving your problem, you should had this to the review.
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> Fahad Al-Saidi wrote:
>     Well, the bug itself needs to be retested against Poppler >= 0.40 because of this:
>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55977
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>     Unfortunatly, I am using kde 4 & ubuntu 14.04 and it is diffcult for me to upgrade right now.
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> Olivier Churlaud wrote:
>     I have a newer poppler, so if you add to the bug (on bugzilla) a file test, with a word to test (because I don't have an hebrew or arabic keyboard), I can test it.

done. please test


- Fahad


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On Sept. 29, 2015, 5:42 a.m., Fahad Al-Saidi wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 29, 2015, 5:42 a.m.)
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> Review request for Okular.
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> Bugs: 207748
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207748
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> Repository: okular
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> Description
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> Since arabic search does not work properly in all but pdf  backends, this is a quick attempt to fix this problem. I assumed that text in okular document is in the logical order[ it is a bug by itself]. So by mirroring the search text, the search function works again. 
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> The limitation:
> - you can not search arabic and english text together.
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> Future work:
> we need to check that text generated by poppler is placed in Visual order, so when we copy it and paste it in text editor is still readable.
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> Diffs
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>   ui/searchlineedit.cpp c736759 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125442/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested in Arabic & Hebrew pdfs and it works fine.
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> Thanks,
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> Fahad Al-Saidi
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