Bug 164937

Summary:	Text direction of an English text magically flips to right-to-left at some key combination
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Diederik van der Boor <vdboor>
Component:	kdeui	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	grave	CC:	ahartmetz
Priority:	VHI
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Diederik van der Boor 2008-06-25 15:14:59 UTC

Version:           onbekend (using 3.5.9 "release 53.4" , openSUSE )
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.17-0.1-default

When I'm tying a message in a message field (e.g. kate, kmail) the text direction magically flips to right-to-left by some magic key combination. I've been bitten by this multiple times without knowing how to revert this.

Preferable, the text direction shouldn't switch at all for English texts.

Comment 1 Andreas Pakulat 2008-06-25 17:03:14 UTC

I've seen this happen twice in kmail as well and it happens all the time for me in KDevelop's navigation-combobox thats inside the toolbar. I don't even need to press a key-combo, just focussing it via keyboard shortcut and then typing something switches to RTL.

Comment 2 Andreas Hartmetz 2009-04-10 19:05:37 UTC

Is this bug report still valid?

Comment 3 Diederik van der Boor 2009-04-13 21:14:24 UTC

I haven't seen gotten this in KDE 4 anymore. I don't have multiple locales, but neither did I have those with KDE 3.