BIDI: When we apply RTL direction to a right aligned Paragraph, Paragraph is not moved to left & Alignment of Paragraph is not changed

[Satya Minnekanti]

To reproduce the defect:

1. Open Ajax sample.

2. Type some text, keep the cursor in the paragraph and click on Align Right icon in the Tool bar.

3. See that paragraph is moved to right and Align Right icon is selected in the Tool bar.

4. keep the cursor in the Paragraph and click on RTL icon in the Tool bar.

Expected Result:

See that paragraph is moved to left and Align Left icon is selected in the Tool bar.

Actual Result:

Paragraph is staying on the right instead of moving to left & Alignment of Paragraph is also not changed & it is still shown as Right Aligned.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

I'm quite unsure about this one. The fact is that alignment is a "formatting" feature, while BiDi is a "semantics" feature.

If the user "formatted" the text to be at right, much probably s/he just wants it at right, no matter the language direction.

Opening a discussion around it.

[Garry Yao]

Hold the same opinion with Fred also, alignment has nothing to do with direction.

[Damian]

I would not say that alignment has nothing to do with direction. There is a reason why the default rendering in browsers in the following example is right aligned :

  <p dir="rtl">Test</p>

The moment that a user decides that something needs to be RTL, the default expectation is that the content will become right aligned. Agreed, alignment can always be overridden by the user, after they have set the direction.

[Tobiasz Cudnik]

I don't see a difference between mirroring margins and mirroring alignment when changing the direction.

I think we should have this missing feature in 3.4.2.

[Garry Yao]

'config.justifyClasses' is not working under the patch, while it should handled separately at #6510.

[Tobiasz Cudnik]

Fixed with [5997].