[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107204] Writer treats Old Hungarian text as left-to-right script instead of right-to-left

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107204

--- Comment #7 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #4)
> Thanks, that is a useful font.
> 
> Guess we need to determine if support for other RTL scripts from the Unicode
> Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) is handled correctly or if it is a
> specific issue with HarfBuzz.
> 
> In hb is LTR/RTL read as a font attribute, or is it defined by Unicode block?
> 
> Khaled?

Directionality text not font property and is not handled by HarfBuzz, we
determine the text direction based on Unicode bidirectional algorithm (we use
ICU for that) before calling HarfBuzz.

The attachment does not contain any text documents, but the text in the bug
description is shown RTL in Writer already as expected.

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