A lot of the problems I'm describing revolve around text input / editing / display rather than straight string manipulation. Let's say I want to type 'My name

A lot of the problems I'm describing revolve around text input / editing / display rather than straight string manipulation. Let's say I want to type 'My name is Matt.' in Farsi which is right to left. Transliterated that is 'esme (name) man (my) Matt ast (is)' and you might think I'd type that by typing the words in that order. اسم من Matt است The above is what I get if I type the words in that order while switching between Persian / English keyboards but it's not really what I'd expect as a user. In terms of right to left word order the above says 'ast Matt esme man' which is not the order I typed and is not correct. Now I'm not an expert in Farsi, Unicode or multi-lingual text entry and I don't know if the problem here is user error, browser implementation, Windows, or what. I know there's something about directional override characters in Unicode and a complex algorithm for dealing with text with mixed directions. I discovered while trying to write this post that it's been exploited in file names as a malware vector. I just know that this stuff is more complicated than I have time to deal with as a programmer on most projects I've worked on, so if Unicode is supported I don't even know if it's working correctly or how to test it in many cases. Try to select, copy and paste the above text into a text editor and then move the cursor around with the cursor keys in it. Is the behavior what you'd expect? Is it correct? I don't know enough to be able to tell honestly.