Created an attachment (id=6885) [details]
Test html page which shows the problem.

Very intesting :)

I'm confirming that this issue still exists in KDE 3.3 beta2. Also I have more
information, I played with the attached test case before anyone reported the
bug (I work with Joachim on the project that discovered this particular case)
and through my tests came to the conclusion that it is the dir="ltr" attributes
of the <span> tags that seems to be causing the issue. If you remove those
attributes the text is only rendered once as you would expect. As I recall we
explicitly state for text to render from left to right as an insanity check,
and because it is possible (and highly probable given the nature of our
project) to display left-to-right text with right-to-left text within the same
page.

CVS commit by carewolf: 

Big Bad Bidi Merge.
Merging all changes in bidi.cpp from Webcore/125, and selected ones 
from Webcore/146.

This results in 2182 benign changes in regression outputs.

BUG: 54916
BUG: 59476
BUG: 62904
BUG: 64506
BUG: 69806
BUG: 74800
BUG: 79365
BUG: 86157


  M +15 -1     ChangeLog   1.315
  M +976 -592  rendering/bidi.cpp   1.197
  M +25 -57    rendering/bidi.h   1.19
  M +3 -3      rendering/render_block.h   1.20
  M +3 -1      rendering/render_list.h   1.36
  M +4 -3      rendering/render_object.h   1.198