Re: [board-discuss] Drafting Tender "Text runs of RTL scripts from imported PDF are reversed"

Feedback as requested:

Well, first of all, the wording is generic and has some redundant text.
If I were to read this tender, I would assume whoever published it is
either technically incompetent, or has been told by a third party to
publish the tender, and would be ill-equipped to offer guidance to
whoever wants to address the issue, including regarding the causes and
potential avenues for a fix. That's off-putting.

Among other things, the tender itself should list key relevant
"technology standards", related third-party libraries/tools,
subtrees/directories within the LO source tree etc. More specifically, I
should be seeing some paragraphs regarding pdfimport,  i18util, string
mirroring, character classification etc.

I would also expect to see text explaining the significance and public
'visibility' of this issue: This single issue prevents LO from being
used to edit, or even view, PDF files with content in any of the RTL
languages (Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Hebrew etc). It is a big deal.

Also, perhaps it should be made clear we are expecting a robust fix, not
some kind of reverse-the-reversed-text hack, or using single-character
text runs or some such silliness.

Eyal


> Hello,
>
> one of the approved [1] tenders is the
>
>         Tender "Text runs of RTL scripts from imported PDF are reversed"
>
> The board would like to work together in public with all of you on this tender before it gets 
> officially published. The current draft is therefore shared at
>
>
> https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/Lpg2APqkYbPHezd
>
> The board is happy to get your feedback and proposals. We'd like to discuss this ideally in the 
> board call after next, i.e. on Monday, May 16, at 1800 Berlin time. Please send your feedback to 
> the public board-discuss@documentfoundation.org mailing list. Thanks a lot to all community members 
> involved for working on the tender draft!
>
>
> Looking forward to your feedback,
>
> Xisco
>
> [1] https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00400.html
>
>
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