Hi, Waldo. About a month ago, I've committed the same code. (This problem was well known in Japanese.) please look at this commit log: http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/khtml/rendering/bidi.cpp?rev=1.181&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup cheers. Kazuki Ohta : mover at hct.zaq.ne.jp