Round brackets not showing up correctly in RightToLeft flow direction in WPF

Question

Flow direction in my WPF window is set to RightToLeft like so:

<TextBlock FlowDirection="RightToLeft" x:Name="test">

In code if I do test.Text = "(2/3)"; I see

(2/3)

But if I do test.Text = "asdf (2/3)"; I see

(asdf (2/3

What's going on here? Why is it that starting the text with a string changes the positioning of the brackets?

Answer 1

I am not sure, but another more complex workaround is:

Friday, February 12, 2010 5:10 PM Ben Ronco - MSFT

Unfortunately this is a bug that we have recently discovered. You may be able to work around this issue by puttting some "invisible" non punctuation text at the end of your content like this:

{example modified}

<TextBlock FlowDirection="RightToLeft" x:Name="test">                    
    <Run>Label1 (cms)</Run>
    <Run FontSize=".01">i</Run>
</TextBlock> 

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