https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154756

--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #5)

... and about the same thing is said about Japanese:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/NOTE-jlreq-20200811/#vertical_writing_mode_and_horizontal_writing_mode

in both case it's said that rotation is common for words or sentences in
Western languages, while proper vertical order with no rotation "is usually
applied to one-letter alphanumerics or capitalized abbreviations".

What this means is that when writing a predominantly CJK paragraph, we need to
_sometimes_ rotate and _sometimes_ not rotate. So the rotation or lack thereof
must be a property of _stretches of non-CJK text_, not of a paragraph or a
page. We may also need to be smart about choosing what to do by default (e.g.
avoid rotation until we see a lowercase letter in English).

With all of that said - when writing purely in Western languages (or RTL
languages with block shapes like Hebrew) - the logic of "rotation for stretches
of text" does not apply (in my opinion), or only applies sometimes (if we want
to use the same logic as with CJK).

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