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Consider the following bidirectional text in MS Word 2010, where the caret was positioned with a mouse click right at the left of the Hebrew letter dalet.

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If I then press Delete, the caret moves to its new position :

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As far as I can understand the caret should not move in this case. Any explanation ?

Belloc
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  • What's the raw text for that (in a form that can be copied and pasted)? – Neil May 24 '12 at 21:11
  • Just insert the Hebrew characters alef, bet and dalet (in this order) after the characters 'ABC', using the Insert Symbols dialog and the Arial font. – Belloc May 24 '12 at 21:15
  • Exactly. I don't know how to insert these Hebrew characters in this box. Sorry. – Belloc May 24 '12 at 21:20

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The caret "moves" from being just after (but visually before) the dalet to just before the end of the line. These are in different visual positions but the same logical position.

I also compared the behaviour in Firefox 4 (which I happened to have handy) and Firefox 15 (Nightly). Firefox 4 has a bug where pressing right arrow cycles though the Hebrew characters, however it doesn't move the caret when you press delete in your situation. Firefox 15 does not have the right arrow bug, but it exhibits the same delete "bug".

Neil
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  • The problem that I see is that if I just press the right arrow, in the same initial position above, the caret will not move. Why does it move when I press Delete ? – Belloc May 24 '12 at 21:34