Improved support for bi-directional text in the content

[mlewand]

Is this a bug report or feature request?

🆕 Feature request

💻 Version of CKEditor

CKEditor v5 @ 12.4.0

📋 Steps to reproduce

There's a Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm which boils down to searching for a first strong directional character and changing the direction of the block, based on that character. Thanks to that algorithm, each block (usually the paragraph) can have its direction (when different than dir="..." of the editable), which helps editing mixed content and saving it to the database. It obsoletes the CKEditor 4 BiDi plugin.

• It can be implemented using a set of RegExps, which are based on official BiDi class definitions. For instance, facebook is using that in their utils.
• The UI of the editor can reflect the direction of the block, e.g. the icons can be mirrored dynamically. More examples.

(extracted from #1151)

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[wwalc]

It would be great to support pasting mixed content from Word too. So possibly some automatic detection would be great, at least for pasting operations.

Possibly related (?): #5019

[AbobkerElaghel]

10/ 10/ 2022
Any update on the TextDirection toolbar item??

[movahhedi]

Need this so much. +1

[mohamedsabil83]

+1

[Reinmar]

More feedback about the need for BiDi plugin in CKE5: #1151 (comment)