https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164492
--- Comment #15 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #12) Well, first, there's the question of frequency of that scenario. Looking at the caret to figure out what a typing would achieve is not just frequent, it happens whenever your work on the document involves typing in languages with different directions - for every single such document, in every LO module, always. Identifying a character's directionality is a niche situation and relatively rare even in that niche (i.e. you don't need to identify that again and again). Moreover - have we ever taken a decision that this is what the caret direction indicator should represent? I mean, all the examples I can find so far, to the extent that they even have show caret direction indicators, use it to reflect the implicit keyboard layout direction. There would need to be a strong argument in favor of having a conflicting semantic for it. That said - it would be nice to be able to make a selection and get a visual indication of the directionality of the selected characters: RTL, LTR, mixed or neutral. But the caret is not what I would use for that. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
