Nope - selection is on logical text, not on visual text. For tons of "fun" reasons. If you want an afternoon of madness, read the Chrome or WebKit sources relat

Nope - selection is on logical text, not on visual text. For tons of "fun" reasons. If you want an afternoon of madness, read the Chrome or WebKit sources relating to BiDi text. If that's not enough pain, read http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/ http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/ (the unicode BiDi algorithm) If you're still liking it, I know a few people who'd love to hire you :)