From e5f42f67d01819645f23c7348bddfc3603472139 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 16:16:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix display of perenthesis in Hebrew documents

This was a regression from 2.1.x. I failed to copy the horrible hack that was present for the special case of () in Hebrew.

There is a real need for someone who understands RTL language stuff to fix this. Currently () are wrong in .lyx files IMO. We should not have to swap them for display.
---
 src/TextMetrics.cpp | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/TextMetrics.cpp b/src/TextMetrics.cpp
index d62dae76d4..902c62d7e3 100644
--- a/src/TextMetrics.cpp
+++ b/src/TextMetrics.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include "CutAndPaste.h"
 #include "HSpace.h"
 #include "InsetList.h"
+#include "Language.h"
 #include "Layout.h"
 #include "LyXRC.h"
 #include "MetricsInfo.h"
@@ -819,8 +820,17 @@ void TextMetrics::breakRow(Row & row, int const right_margin, pit_type const pit
 		} else if (c == '\t')
 			row.addSpace(i, theFontMetrics(*fi).width(from_ascii("    ")),
 				     *fi, par.lookupChange(i));
-		else
+		else {
+			// FIXME: please someone fix the Hebrew/Arabic parenthesis mess!
+			// see also Paragraph::getUChar.
+			if (fi->language()->lang() == "hebrew") {
+				if (c == '(')
+					c = ')';
+				else if (c == ')')
+					c = '(';
+			}
 			row.add(i, c, *fi, par.lookupChange(i));
+		}
 
 		// add inline completion width
 		// draw logically behind the previous character