[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 152125] Ease use of Unicode control characters for bidirectionality, e.g. RLI and PDI

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152125

--- Comment #11 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to خالد حسني from comment #7)
> I’m thinking. may be make the behavior of the existing LTR/RTL toolbar
> buttons selection-dependent i.e. if there is no selection they change the
> direction of the paragraph where the cursor is in, if there is selection
> they insert RLI/LRI and PDF. This a change in behavior and might be a bit
> surprising to some, but we have also seen reports before where people were
> expecting this kind of behavior.

I would be totally against this, because:

1. The toolbar buttons are explicitly marked as regarding the paragraph
direction
2. You have to select multiple paragraphs in order to set their paragraph
direction...
3. Would be incompatible with every editor app or web control which has
paragraph-direction-setting buttons. (Including LO <= 7.5, MS Office, GDocs
etc.)

> Problem B
> LibreOffice supports to enter the control characters (3). That is in Insert
> > Formatting Mark > Left-to-Right Mark and Right-to-Left Mark. But there
> exists no tool for the control characters (1) and (2).

They can be inserted using Insert > Special Character...  ; now, that's quite
inconvenient, but I believe nobody, more-or-less, ever wants to insert anything
other than RLM or LRM. I might be wrong, but - do we know that there is user
interest in a more convenient method of inserting these?

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