[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 69109] Editing: RTL character string causes (left to right) numerics to flip order to also be RTL

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69109

--- Comment #13 from braunmax at yahoo.com ---
Dear Eyal Rozenberg and Khaled Hosny,

Having worked through the referenced algorithm as current, I agree fully that
there is no bug, as such.

Thank you Eyal for your comprehensive comment I appreciate this truly, the
cursor movement is what I need after the setting to "visual" - I cannot
remember when I set my defaults to "logical" but know it was during one of the
attempts to understand the behaviour of what appeared to be a bug to me.

Thank you once again Khaled Hosny for triggering my detailed retesting of the
alleged bug and algorithm, I apologise for doubting that my description had
been correctly understood, the error was mine, and your response and cloure
decision fully justified.

I ironically fell into the self-stated trap of mixing editor behaviour (for
which settings are available) with the interpretation of a misbehaving routine.

The full facility to create the string as I wish it to be is by using the
(algorithm approved) insert->formatting marks->left to-right formatting
marker/code at the first numeral (or before). Numerics do actually swap their
order (at an ISO thousands delimiter of a space) as mentioned, which is also
corrected with the insertion of the marker.

To allow the automatic table of contents to have correct format (i.e. have the
page numbers and dots appear correctly with RTL - they were in a different
format to the other RTL headings) I also insert the LTR mark at the end of the
heading, solving my original problem in 2013.

Whether the mark should be entered when a deletion causes previous LTR text to
change to or join the RTL string is of course an editor behaviour point to be
debated outside a bug report, however good consistency has definitely been
achieved.

Again, thank you both and the others who commented for assistance in this - and
again I find LibreOffice superior to Micorsoft's offerings.

Kind regards,

Max

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