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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Jun 16 11:11:27 +0000 
2009 -------
> If the change is to made for each application where the symptom occurs, this
> would have to be fixed not only in calc, but also in Writer tables with number
> recognition.

Yes. And Impress tables, Chart data tables, and maybe more. The actual
logic and insertion could be still made in the number formatter, with
the method getting passed an argument whether it should insert a LRM.

> I'm wondering though how serious a concern it should be that a target
> application would ignore an LRM. Wouldn't it be fair to assume that any
> application which would be Unicode-aware enough to reverse the order of "-3"
> because of the new Unicode Bidi properties of minus/hyphen would be
> Unicode-aware enough to support an LRM? 

Not necessarily. I wasn't referring to reversal of "-3". For a simple
example take the export of numbers to CSV, you'd have a field content
with <LRM>-3. An application parsing that file may not recognize the
data being numeric if it does not ignore the LRM character.

When copying data via clipboard, the pasting application inserts data as
is, in an RTL environment you'd end up with the logical sequence
ABC <LRM>Data DEF.
Now, how is that supposed to be displayed?

I don't think the LRM belongs into data because it is a mere display
option.


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