Hebrew search in PDFs is backwards?

[Dotan Cohen]

2010/1/17 Gadi Cohen <dragon at wastelands.net>:
> Hi
>
> I've exported a PDF from OpenOffice 3.1 (with tags).
> I can search for Hebrew text in Evince or Okular, but it searches backwards.
> E.g.  If I have the words SHIR and RISHON, if I start typing "RI" it
> will match the end of SHIR.
>
> I have no idea if this is a problem with OpenOffice, Evince/Okular or
> just the PDF standard.
> Any pointers?
>

The  bug is in Okular, please comment on it so that they will see that
it actually affects people other than Dotan and they might fix it:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207748

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Dotan Cohen

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