bug: highlighting breaks RTL text

[adueck]

Did you check docs and existing issues?

• I have read all the vscode-neovim docs
• I have searched the existing issues of vscode-neovim
• I can reproduce the issue with an empty init.vim/init.lua and no other vscode extensions (when applicable)

Neovim version (nvim -v)

0.8.3

Operating system/version

MacOS 13.0.1

Describe the bug

When using NeoVim highlighting over matching RTL text (Arabic etc.), the character ordering is broken. (This happens both while searching and while in visual mode).

One of the great things about VSCode is how it handles RTL text perfectly (including selecting). I've been delighted to be able to use NeoVim + VSCode and enjoy the RTL support as well, it would be great if this little wrinkle could be ironed out. Perhaps this is a more difficult issue though...

Steps To Reproduce

1. Type something in RTL text
2. Highlight part of or all of the RTL text
3. The order of the characters is scrambled.

Expected Behavior

Just as with the VSCode native highlighting/selection, a selection should not break the RTL word order.

[xiyaowong]

The current highlighting is consistent with nvim. There is nothing we can do.

You can use vscode's search.

map <silent> / <Cmd>call VSCodeCall('actions.find')<CR>