GNU bug report logs - #41506
two newlines followed by RTL text aligns left instead of right

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Message #8 received at 41506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 41506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41506: 28.0.50; RTL problem
Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 17:46:12 +0300

> From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 13:05:17 +0000
> 
> 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's a bug, but one that's very tricky to fix, AFAIR.  If you insert
or delete a single character, the display becomes correct.

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