Tables are not numbered using Polyglossia in Hebrew

Question

I have a problem using Polyglossia in Hebrew: While defining main language as Hebrew, my tables are not numbered in the caption(It appraes as just "Table" (טבלה) instead of "Table 1" (or "טבלה 1"). If I change the main language back to English - the table is captioned as "Table 1" without problems.

Any suggestions how can I bring back the numbers to the caption of the tables?

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{hebrew}
\setotherlanguage{english}


\setmainfont{David}
\setsansfont{Arial}
\setmonofont{Arial}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rrr}
  \hline
    & speed & dist \\ 
  \hline
  1 &  4.00 &  2.00 \\ 
  2 &  4.00 & 10.00 \\ 
  3 &  7.00 &  4.00 \\ 
  4 &  7.00 & 22.00 \\ 
  5 &  8.00 & 16.00 \\ 
  6 &  9.00 & 10.00 \\ 
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{סתם טבלה}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

No problem here using MAC OSX 10.7.4 and TeXLive 2012:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{hebrew}
\setotherlanguage{english}


\setmainfont{Adobe Hebrew}
\setsansfont{Arial}
\setmonofont{Arial}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rrr}
  \hline
 & speed & dist \\ 
  \hline
1 & 4.00 & 2.00 \\ 
  2 & 4.00 & 10.00 \\ 
  3 & 7.00 & 4.00 \\ 
  4 & 7.00 & 22.00 \\ 
  5 & 8.00 & 16.00 \\ 
  6 & 9.00 & 10.00 \\ 
   \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{סתם טבלה}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\end{document}

here is the output I get which is perfectly fine:

UPDATE:

@Ulrike: This should be your minimal example:

\documentclass{minimal}
\TeXXeTstate=1
\font\body="Adobe Hebrew:script=hebrew" at 12pt % replace "Adobe Hebew" with some other Hebrew font
\begin{document}
\hbox{\beginR\body
טבלה
1:
סתם טבלה
\endR}
\end{document}

Using TeXLive 2012 on Mac OS X 10.7.4, this is what I get which is the expected behaviour:

If you get anything else, then that is the bug of MiKTeX. Indeed, MiKTeX has included a buggy version of XeTeX binary for several years. For details, see Here.

Answer 2

@Eyal, @Vafa:

Regarding the problem with the separator. I don't know if it is due to a bug in miktex as I don't know what is the indented or wanted behaviour (how e.g. should the number 123 be printed in hebrew? As 123 or 321?). But if it is bug then the first step is to simplify the problem. Examples which relies on fontspec, polyglossia, bidi and unknown fonts will not be useful in a bug report.

I boiled down the problem to the following:

\documentclass{article}
%\font\test="Arial Unicode MS"
\font\test="Ezra SIL"
\TeXXeTstate=1

 \chardef\popDirection"202C
 \chardef\forceLtoR"202D
 \chardef\forceRtoL"202E
\begin{document}
%non-unicode font
\beginR
abc 123:
\endR

%unicode-font
\test
abc 123:  456\mbox{}:  מאוד abמאוד :מאוד

\beginR
abc 123:  456\mbox{}:  מאוד abמאוד :מאוד
\endR

\beginR
\forceRtoL 123:  
\forceRtoL abמאוד
\endR

\end{document}

This give this result for me with miktex 2.9 (the result with arial unicode is similar):

It is obvious that as soon as unicode-fonts are used the direction inside "words" depends on the unicode plane of the chars involved: Words with numbers or chars like "abc" together with punctuation chars like colons or dots are printed left-to-right even in a RTL context (and the other way round). Words which mix chars from left-to-right and right-to-left-planes can swallow preceding chars due to the direction change. What do you get on TeXLive?

Answer 3

I use MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows XP.

Here's what I get with Ulrike's MWE (with FrankRuehl as the font):

and this is without the script=hebrew (as per Vafa's comment):

so, no number glyph and no colon glpyh in the first image, and they appear again in the second image. Also, there's the separator bug Shmulik linked to. Finally, note the spacing differences - the glyphs are not replaced with whitespace of the same width - but there is some extra space in the first example.

With Shmulik's code + slight change of the font command I get some strange behavior:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{hebrew}
\setotherlanguage{english}

%\setmainfont{David}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont{David}
\setsansfont{Arial}
\setmonofont{Arial}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rrr}
  \hline
    & speed & dist \\
  \hline
  1 &  4.00 &  2.00 \\
  2 &  4.00 & 10.00 \\
  3 &  7.00 &  4.00 \\
  4 &  7.00 & 22.00 \\
  5 &  8.00 & 16.00 \\
  6 &  9.00 & 10.00 \\
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{סתם טבלה}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{document}

The non-Hebrew characters do seem to be David, but the Hebrew is in some other font.