https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164492
--- Comment #11 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #6) > > Additionally, I do not see the direction-indicator as > > "what *will* appear", but rather "what *already is* the direction in the > > caret position". > > The caret is not covering a character, so there isn't a direction in the > caret position - unless you mean the paragraph direction There is. Basically, what is being actually shown now, is the direction that the *preceding* character has (and so, it's equal to the direction, which the caret travelled when passed the previous character). There is indeed an exception for the zeroth position. I do not know what would be good UX WRT this direction. I have no preference myself; if, instead of the current information, the "predominant direction of characters on the currently-active layout" would satisfy more users, I'm fine with that (and I don't know how e.g. Asian users do their input, and so I think that this needs some wider discussion outside of Western audience (which is unaffected), but including many maybe-affected communities). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
