RTL auto-detection makes PostMeta messy
jgarplind opened this issue · comments
Describe the bug
RTL auto-detection causes @-character in PostMeta to be misplaced.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
See https://bsky.app/profile/pastures.bsky.social for example.
Expected behavior
@-character should always precede the handle, since the handle is inherently LTR-text, event if the display name is RTL-text.
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Details
- Platform: Android and Windows Edge. Presumably iOS also.
- Platform version: 13 / 126
- App version: 1.86
Additional context
This behavior appears to be the output of the BIDI algorithm, see this post for a link to the spec and a playground.
I consider this a minor inconvenience considering the overall state of Bluesky RTL support, but have a fix in mind that I will contribute soon.
Here's how Signal handles Unicode bidi, I think it's worth taking a look given the processing it tries to do
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/ce0fb220411b97722e1e080c14faa65d23165784/ts/util/unicodeBidi.ts#L124
Merged this in, thank you!