Comment by yonatan8070

I recently helped my GF by proofreading something she wrote, which is a primarily Hebrew (RTL) Word document with English terms like units, numbers, and unpronouncable chemical names sprinkled in.

If I had a dollar for every time MS Word failed to correctly handle the BIDI mix and put things in the wrong order, despite me reapeatedly trying different ways to fix it, I'd be richer than Microsoft.

On the contrary, Google Docs, LibreOffice, and pretty much every text box outside of MS Office can effortlessly handle BIDI mixing, all thanks the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm [1] being widely implemented ans standardized.

[1] https://unicode.org/reports/tr9/