https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144911
--- Comment #5 from خالد حسني <[email protected]> --- (In reply to h.rosemarin from comment #4) > the previous comment is correct, but.... > it is correct that using the "intuitive" menu sequence: "Insert->Formatting > Mark->Left-To-Right Mark" renders the text as expected > however, I believe that this should not be the default behavior, and users > should not have to resort to using invisible formatting marks whenever they > want to cite an international (latin text and digits) reference while > writing in a r-t-l language > 1. because it is not intuitive, and not what users expect > 2. as an expert "witness" to back my intuition on default behavior - MS Word > renders the text in my example correctly without any "formatting marks". The > fact that the users enters a sequence of digits and latin letters means that > the sequence should be formatted as a left-to-right sequence within the > right-to-left paragraph I don't know what MS Word is doing nor I can test it to confirm, but either it is inserting the formatting marks automatically based on some heuristic (and I think we already have open issues requisting such behavior) or implements q non-standard bidi algorithm which I don't think some thing we want to support. FWIW, you will get the same digit order thing in essentially any application (other than MS Office, based on your observation). The font switch is unique to office suits and we probably can improve it, but I feel that the digit order is the bigger issue here. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
