Issue 17154

Summary: Some way is needed to force the direction of certain text spans
Product: Internationalization Reporter: herouth <herouth>
Component: BiDiAssignee: Dieter.Loeschky
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: issues@l10n <issues>
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOo 1.1 RC   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Mac System 9.0   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

Description herouth 2003-07-20 21:01:50 UTC 
The default BiDi algorithm has problems in certain issues. For example, a string "(English Text) 
More Text" (with paretheses) within a right-to-left paragraph Will have the closing parenthesis 
incorrectly placed. It appears like "English Text) More English Text)".

There is a solution for this in unicode, in the form of embedding characters (RLE and LRE, 
terminated with PDF). Or RLM (To force a neutral character to be considered RTL).

However, there is no way in OOo to insert such characters or to see them. Perhaps an RLE span 
should actually be a character style attribute (which is more natural in a word processor than 
entering control characters). Whatever the way, such "direction fixes" have to be provided for.
Comment 1 sforbes 2003-07-28 15:29:52 UTC 
dup of issue #13091

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 13091 ***
Comment 2 Dieter.Loeschky 2003-08-14 13:30:14 UTC 
DL: Closed