Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 227800
[Indic] text moves when selected in kate
Last modified: 2008-08-04 19:56:20 EDT
Description of problem: A strange problem I have found in applications like kate/kedit. Opening any "Indic" file and trying to select some portion causes the text to " move ". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open any document having some text written in any Indic language, I did with Assamese. 2. Try to select a portion of the text. 3. Actual results: While selecting with the mouse, the text moves. Apart from that, if I want to bring my cursor to a certain place within the Indic text, without the help of cursor keys and just clicking on the relevant place with the mouse, the cursor actually appears to be at some distance from the intended place. Expected results: Hopefully, it shouldn't happen! Additional info: Checked with other languages like Hindi and Gujarati. It is very difficult to take a screenshot of the moving text or the cursor position, so will try to provide later.
Don't know if this bug has been reported earlier.
Well, It is right, the above thing happens in kate only and not in other k based application. Kedit and other K based apps seems to be fixed which earlier having the same kind of issue. As far as what I studied over this bug and working of the kate is as Kate follows a tool from kdelibs i.e. katerenderer which calculates the width of the inputed characters. Now a days conjucts are calcuated and treated as cluster I mean combined word, so returns the width of the same, but never allows cursor to be moved in betn. That is if you write 'U+09F1 + U+09BE' it is Ra + AA in Assamese. Kate allows you to move cursor seperatly in 'Ra' as well as in 'AA' also. Hence it calculate the width of these characters individually, it usually do mistake while selection and painting them on the screen. So in kate the combining the conjuncts and returning the same, is still missing. please correct me if I am wrong. regards, Sachin Tawniya
Anyone try reporting this to upstream kde @ bugs.kde.org yet? If not, that would likely be the course that has the best chance of getting the issue recognized/fixed by kde developers.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
hi all! i have an updated Fedora 8 box with me now. I confirm that the problem exists with kwrite and kate. the problem doesn't arise when we type only consonants. however, if we type consonant+vowel_sign or any consonant-consonant combination, then the cursor ends up at a place away from the characters typed. when we try to select a portion of the text, we can see the text characters moving. i am writing a few characters. please copy and paste them in kate or kwrite and you can see the differences. 1. Only consonants : কখগঘঙচছজঝঞ please note after you paste these characters and try to select a part or whole of it, the selection through mouse/keyboard shows normal behaviour. 2. Consonant combinations with vowel signs and consonant-consonant combinations: কাকীকিক্ৰচজাজীব্জ the moment you paste these character combinations, you can see the cursor is placed at a distance away from the last character typed. this creates problems in navigating between words,specially if some correction is needed. also, when you try to select part or whole of the word using mouse or keyboard, you can see characters moving.
This looks fixed with kde4: at least I can't reproduce with kwrite in pre-F9 rawhide.
Amitakhya, could you confirm this is ok with KDE 4 in F9?
Hi, Sorry for the delay from my side. Confirmed, it doesn't happen in Kate. I have just now updated my F9 box and tried it out. The problem doesn't exist. Regards, Amit.
Thanks