https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61795
--- Comment #10 from Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to amirimobile from comment #9)
> I seriously don't see how this is resolved. There is a serious problem here:
> Users get the _wrong_ results out of what they type. That means that this is
> in fact a bug.
No it is not, that is how the Unicode Bidirectional Text Algorithm works, not
ideal but that is why control characters exists; to asset the algorithm when
there is ambiguity (which is the case here).
> Regarding "Using formatting characters is a perfectly fine way..." - if what
> you mean by this is that users enter these formatting characters manually,
> then it is definitely _not_ fine. This is a terrible nuisance to the few who
> even know what these formatting characters are and how to input them, but
> the vast majority of users are simply dumbfounded by the current behavior,
> and this is something that does actually work in the popular (sorry) office
> suite.
Please cite examples of this working differently elsewhere.
> All of this has of course already been mentioned by the OP of this bug, and
> what has already been said (in subsequent comments) is that the Unicode BiDi
> algorithm does not have to change, but libreoffice _does_.
So what are the requested changes, other than changing the algorithm?
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