Agreed about the standard part but I have to make sure my text gets rendered correctly. so: Currently it is: R N EOR -> R e EOR What if I change it to: R N EOR -> R R EOR (this looks correct to me). Is there any reason for not doing this? Will this give me any further issue or will it cleanly solve my problem? Comments? Thanks. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org" target="_blank">behdad@behdad.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> That's standard behavior. It's broken, I know. But that's what the Unicode standard requires. <a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/</a> There's work being pushed by Microsoft to address this in the next version of Unicode though. In the mean time, bidi formatting characters are your friend. behdad <div><div class="h5"> On 09/27/2012 12:33 PM, Samiullah Khawaja wrote: > Hi, > > When I use the string "hello (world) مرحبا العالم" in fribidi it gives be > base_direction = RTL and generates the embedded levels. It generates the > embedded level of the ")" after "world" equal to 1. > > Is this correct? I think it should be equal to 2. as the it is part of the > embedded English (LTR) text. Note that the text is starting with arabic and > then ending on the ")" in string array. > > -- > Samiullah Khawaja > > > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > fribidi mailing list > <a href="mailto:fribidi@lists.freedesktop.org">fribidi@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fribidi" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fribidi</a> </blockquote></div> -- Samiullah Khawaja Software Engineer email: <a href="mailto:sami.khawaja@gmail.com">sami.khawaja@gmail.com</a> voice: +(92) 0321-4184324