Hi Radu, On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Oxygen XML Editor Support <support@oxygenxml.com> wrote:
Hi Wendell,
Probably it would be handy for users to see better those special Unicode BIDI characters used to force direction. I will add an improvement request for this. But it is advisable that users should rely more on markup than on these characters.
Indeed.
About this remark:
BTW, it looks to me as though oXygen automatically inserts the Unicode controls when I insert characters from the Hebrew Unicode block. Is this correct? Will it happen even when I'm in a place already configured (using CSS on an element) that right-to-left is the direction?
Actually Oxygen does not automatically insert BIDI control characters while the user is typing, the user needs to insert them manually. Oxygen uses the Unicode BIDI algorithm which senses correctly places where the flow of characters changes orientation just by looking at their character range. Those BIDI control characters are useful when you want to force that behavior one way or the other, when the default algorithm does not properly arrange the flow of text the way you want it to be read.
Thanks, this is very useful to know. Cheers, Wendell Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^