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Collection extension needs direction improvements for RTL languages
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For RTL languages collection extension detect line direction according to first word. in many cases it is not True.

All texts in below should be shown RTL
http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:Yamaha5/Bug_of_PDF_3

lines,==,*,# after Line which is started with Latin words should have their own direction.


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:59 AM
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The bidi algorithm seems to be associating the space with the LTR text instead of the RTL text so the two texts run together. With input "foo <persian>" we get "<persian>foo" with no space.

Aklapper renamed this task from Collection extension needs direction improvments for RTL languages to Collection extension needs direction improvements for RTL languages.Aug 17 2015, 1:34 PM
Aklapper added projects: RTL, I18n.