Issue 17154 - Some way is needed to force the direction of certain text spans
Summary: Some way is needed to force the direction of certain text spans
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 13091
Alias: None
Product: Internationalization
Classification: Code
Component: BiDi (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC
Hardware: All Mac System 9.0
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: Dieter.Loeschky
QA Contact: issues@l10n
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Reported: 2003-07-20 21:01 UTC by herouth
Modified: 2010-02-10 19:24 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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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