https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162306
Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks|109530, 162305 | See Also| |https://bugs.documentfounda | |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16 | |2305 --- Comment #5 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4) > How do you know whether the document continues with RTL text given the > default PS is RTL following the locale settings? It's very likely IMO. Actually, AFAICT, it is actually not likely for a text file starting with an LTR paragraph to be mostly-RTL. > Or > let's think of the 'lazy fox' and add one RTL character, maybe an Aleph as > list indicator. And what do you expect for the opposite, LTR locale > receiving some الثعلب البني السريع text, hope this is correct, and > Western/Latin default PS? This is actually a challenge I face in my Thunderbird extension for direction auto-detection. I cooked up a certain heuristic to make the decision, which I could elaborate if you like. > Ultimately not a topic for UX but RTL people. I will ask for input on the RTL Telegram channel. > Rather a duplicate of 162305 than blocking. There are three possibilities: 1. Use the LO locale regardless of anything. 2. Apply a heuristic to determine the direction of the first paragraph, ignore rest-of-documents. 3. Apply a heuristic to determine the direction of _each_ paragraph in the document, then either aggregate somehow (e.g. "any RTL paragraph -> RTL document", or "majority", or something accounting for the LO locale) or apply per-paragraph direction, as suggested in bug 162305. Now, bug 162305 is a heavy "ask", which is why I separated it. Option (3.) already takes a bit of work. But while we are undecided (or rejecting) option (3.), it is still better to use option (2.) as a cheap and rough heuristic, covering the most common cases better than we do now. Referenced Bugs: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109530 [Bug 109530] [META] File opening issues https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162305 [Bug 162305] When opening a text file with both strong-LTR and strong-RTL characters, apply per-paragraph direction setting using a heuristic -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
