Fwd: [Issue 32179] parenthesis are revesersed when they have arabic text in between in the dialog boxes

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

Correct me if I was wrong.

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Subject: [Issue 32179]  parenthesis are revesersed when they have arabic text 
in between in the dialog boxes
Date: Yaum al-Sabt 20 Jumaada al-Thaani 1425 01:11
From: munzirtaha at openoffice dot org
To: munzirtaha at openoffice dot org

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------- Additional comments from munzirtaha at openoffice dot org Fri Aug  6
 18:11:13 -0700 2004 ------- As you mentioned, hdu, in your comment: "the
 first  characters determine the paragraph direction". I am not a Unicode
 guru but I will try to explain it.

For the next button, it starts with a "strongly" right-to-left Arabic
character and characters with a weak bidirectional type determine their
directionality according to their proximity to other characters with strong
directionality.

As Unicode loves to say:
Uppercase letters stand for right-to-left characters, while lowercase letters
stand for left-to-right characters

English: next >>
memory: NEXT >>
display: << TXEN

This how Qt/GTK-based apps behaves nowadays. KDE for example, has an Add >>
and << Remove buttons that behaves properly
(hint: $kcmshell keyboard_layout)

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