title: Why is software support for Bidirectional text (Hebrew,Arabic) so poor?
body: <p>While most operating systems and web browsers have very good support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bidirectional text</a> such as Hebrew and Arabic, most commercial and open-source software does not:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Most text editors, besides the original notepad and the visual studio editor, does a very poor job. (And I tried dozens of them).</li>
  <li>I could not find any file compare tool doing a decent job - No even Beyond-Compare.</li>
  <li>Same thing for software and packages dealing with charting and reporting.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Some questions I have:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Do you share the same pain I do?</li>
  <li>Is the software you write bidirectional compliant? Do you have bug reports about it?</li>
  <li>Do you even know what are the issues involved? Do you test for them?</li>
  <li>Any suggestions on how to make the software world a better place for bidirectional language speakers?</li>
  </ul>