Fix Spacebar Cursor Direction for Right-to-Left (RTL) Languages

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Fix Spacebar Cursor Direction for Right-to-Left (RTL) Languages #450

Closed qdab closed 2 weeks ago

qdab commented 2 months ago

What happened?

While swiping on the space bar the cursor changes direction opposite from the intended location

Bug footage: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4920ad9c-4132-4019-88a7-e6c5bcf4fded

Keyboard Version

v0.1.23.2

Text field info

Same bug across all text fields.

tested same scenario on IOS keyboard and cursor is agnostic to the language

IOS cursor footage: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7fdc2dca-687d-46d4-bb17-497c09972458

AhmadAlHallak commented 2 months ago

Also seeing the same issue on Android (v0.1.23.2)

Majoramari commented 1 month ago

Adding to this issue, the keyboard generally doesn't respect the language direction and just sticks to left-to-right. Even if you're typing in Arabic, despite swiping on the spacebar or using the text editor arrows, it always goes in the wrong direction.

abb128 commented 2 weeks ago

This should be fixed in nightly