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25.1.50; wrong alignment in complex text layout (CTL) in eshell

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Salman Mohammadi <salman <at> ubuntu.ir>
Cc: 23652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23652: 25.1.50;
 wrong alignment in complex text layout (CTL) in eshell
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 03:25:00 +0300

> From: Salman Mohammadi <salman <at> ubuntu.ir>
> Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 21:18:54 +0200
> 
> 
> If the command at the first line in eshell starts with a Latin word the 
> alignment of
> all following lines are LTR and it is OK. But if the first command is
> RTL (for instance Persian script) all the proceeding lines are RTL
> without considering where the following commands are RTL or LTR.
> 
> Here are some screenshots:
> 
> https://i.imgur.com/ravHXi3.png
> https://i.imgur.com/bsnpGVD.png

Does it help to set bidi-paragraph-direction to the value
'left-to-right in the Eshell buffer?  If this gives good results, we
can do that by default as part of Eshell initialization.

Thanks.

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