Proper usage of the bidi setting

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/ranger/gui/widgets/browsercolumn.py b/ranger/gui/widgets/browsercolumn.py
index b3272cbc..b38595c1 100644
--- a/ranger/gui/widgets/browsercolumn.py
+++ b/ranger/gui/widgets/browsercolumn.py
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ import stat
 from time import time
 from os.path import splitext
 
+try:
+    from bidi.algorithm import get_display  # pylint: disable=import-error
+    HAVE_BIDI = True
+except ImportError:
+    HAVE_BIDI = False
+
 from ranger.ext.widestring import WideString
 from ranger.core import linemode
 
@@ -410,9 +416,16 @@ class BrowserColumn(Pager):  # pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes
     def _total_len(predisplay):
         return sum([len(WideString(s)) for s, _ in predisplay])
 
+    def _bidi_transpose(self, text):
+        if self.settings.bidi_support and HAVE_BIDI:
+            return get_display(text)
+        else:
+            return text
+
     def _draw_text_display(self, text, space):
-        wtext = WideString(text)
-        wext = WideString(splitext(text)[1])
+        bidi_text = self._bidi_transpose(text)
+        wtext = WideString(bidi_text)
+        wext = WideString(splitext(bidi_text)[1])
         wellip = WideString(self.ellipsis[self.settings.unicode_ellipsis])
         if len(wtext) > space:
             wtext = wtext[:max(1, space - len(wext) - len(wellip))] + wellip + wext