Re: [w3c/editing] Should we expose physical direction in Deletion commands? (for the case of RTL) (#133)

Testing in contenteditable in Chrome and Firefox, it seems to treat the ligature 'fl' as a single character - so you can only move the caret around it and delete the entire thing. For Latin languages, I think this seems fine as standard browser behavior. Advanced JavaScript libraries can come up with more advanced behavior.

In general, as I understand it, one is expected to have use the characters individually "fl" in the HTML markup, and it is then up to the renderer to display them as a ligature under certain conditions. For editors where the user gets to add ligatures, it would seem to make sense to let the user delte the entire thing as well by default.

Would any of you have examples of non-Latin languages where this would not be ok?

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