https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433926
Bug ID: 433926
Summary: Document text orientation option (RTL and LTR)
Product: kate
Version: 20.12.2
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 136349
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first line LTR, second line RTL
SUMMARY
One of the things I really like about Kate is how well it deals with RTL
(right-to-left) scripts.
The only downside is that Kate does not allow to set the text orientation for
an entire document to either RTL or LTR. Rather, it depends on the first
character in a line to decide whether that line should be displayed RTL or LTR.
While this is often a good solution, in documents which contain both RTL and
LTR text, this has the irritating effect that some lines start on the right
side of the screen and others on the left. This is not always desirable, for
example, if you have a document in which the main body of text is written in a
RTL language but contains markup tags in ASCII characters.
Having an option to fix the text direction for the entire document (LTR, RTL or
dynamic) would be a big improvement.
Inserting directionality characters in the text should not be considered an
option.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Write a line that starts with a tag consisting of ASCII characters, followed
by Arabic text (e.g., "<p>هذه كلمات عربية")
2. Write a line that starts with Arabic text ("كما أن هذه كلمات عربية")
OBSERVED RESULT
The first line will run from left to right, the second line from right to left
EXPECTED RESULT
Both lines RTL
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