[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 129038] New: Non-letter characters misaligned in bidi texts

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129038

            Bug ID: 129038
           Summary: Non-letter characters misaligned in bidi texts
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 3.3.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: travis_bickle82 at outlook.com

Description:
As I described here with pics:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/216996/odd-behavior-in-typing-some-characters-in-bidi-texts/

The problem occurs when users try to put ltr phrases in rtl paragraphs or vice
versa, if the boundary characters consists of non-letters characters, they
receive the direction property of the underlying paragraph. This leads to
misaligned characters in phrase. 

A temporary solution is creating a strong directionality barrier between the
language sequences using Insert → Formatting mark → Left-to-right mark (this
won't work in the first line of paragraph tough, why? I don't know)

Long-term solution treating non-letters characters as letters in LO. This is
what Microsoft office does



Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a rtl paragraph and write something
2. change keyboard layout and write and ltr word that negins with $ (for
expample)
3.

Actual Results:
$ will be misaligned and locates at the end of ltr word

Expected Results:
it should locate at the beginning of the word


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
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