According to this knowledge base article, if a paragraph has "natural" writing direction, then the writing direction of the paragraph should change depending on the first character of the paragraph: <http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11211?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US>
The article gives an example where an English character begins a paragraph that consists primarily of Arabic text. I tried a similar experiment in TextEdit, and I'm not sure how to interpret the results. (I can't read any languages with RTL scripts, so I'm flying a bit blind here): 1. Locale is set to English - United States 2. English is the first item in the list of preferred languages in System Preferences 3. Enabled input methods are U.S. and Hebrew - QWERTY, with U.S. currently active 4. Open a new TextEdit document 5. Note that the current writing direction for both Paragraph and Selection are "natural" 6. Switch to the Hebrew - QWERTY input method 7. Type some gibberish The ruler has flipped to right-aligned, but the text, while running RTL, is laid out flush-left. Why? How is this useful? 8. Select the paragraph and change the paragraph's writing direction to RTL. Now the text is aligned flush-right. Why does an explicit RTL paragraph style behave differently than a "natural" paragraph whose first character is strongly RTL? --Kyle _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
