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two newlines followed by RTL text aligns left instead of right

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From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
To: 41506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41506: 28.0.50; RTL problem
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 13:05:17 +0000

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Hi,
I'm surprised by the way vanilla Emacs behaves when given RTL input:

Recipe:
emacs -Q hebrew.txt

hebrew.txt contains (or should contain!) two newlines followed by the
Hebrew word Ivri, punctuated, followed by another single newline.

Expected result:
right-aligned text

Actual result:
left-aligned text

Is that a bug, or is there something I don't understand? It only
appears to be left-aligned when there are precisely two newlines at
the beginning of the file.

I'm attaching a screenshot since I don't know whether it's a
font-specific issue.

Thanks!

[hebrew.txt (text/plain, attachment)]

[ivri.jpg (image/jpeg, attachment)]

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