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thgir sevom worra tfel+tfihs | shift+left arrow moves right
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In VisualEditor, in RTL wikis hold the SHIFT button and press the left button except the character left to the current position to be selected, but actually the character on the right get selected.

Happen in Firefox 58 (doesn't reproduce on Chromium)

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eranroz created this task.Feb 1 2018, 9:02 PM
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See also: T40546

Amire80 added a project: Upstream.Feb 3 2018, 9:22 AM
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It's a very unfortunate upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138419

A workaround is to go to about:config and to set bidi.edit.caret_movement_style to value 1. Sorry, it's awful. I hope Mozilla will fix it some day.

Amire80 moved this task from Untriaged to RTL on the I18n board.Feb 3 2018, 11:52 AM
Esanders renamed this task from thgir sevom worra tfel+tfihs to thgir sevom worra tfel+tfihs | shift+left arrow moves right.Feb 7 2018, 3:05 PM
Esanders closed this task as Declined.Feb 7 2018, 3:07 PM
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We deliberately (and a great expense) defer to the browser for cursor movement.

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