Why does this happen with ToolStripMenuItems?

When adding a ToolStripMenuItem to a form and setting RightToLeft to true and having a quote at the end of the text does it place the quote at the front of the Text?

ToolStripMenuItem1.Text = "Name \"Text\"";
ToolStripMenuItem1.Righ开发者_运维知识库tToLeft = System.Windows.Forms.RightToLeft.Yes;

Displays as; "Name "Text

Edit: This also happens with single quotes.

By setting RightToLeft to Yes, you are asking the Windows text rendering engine to apply the text layout rules used in languages that use a right-to-left order. Arabic and Hebrew. Those rules are pretty subtle, especially because English phrases in those languages are not uncommon. It is not going to render "txeT emaN" as it normally does with Arabic or Hebrew glyphs, that doesn't make sense to anybody. It needs to identify sentences or phrases and reverse those. Quotes are special, they delineate a phrase.

Long story short, you are ab-using a feature to get alignment that was really meant to do something far more involved. Don't use it for that.

EDIT:
IF you just want to change Text Alignment then there is always ToolStripItem.Alignment or ToolStripItem.Padding to try...

The feature you are using is meant for localization and can support mixed content... The way you use that feature seems more like an abuse... since Windows needs to make sense of "mixed content" of which you provide an extreme (no arabic at all).

I find it always hard to be sure that such behaviour though unexpected and unintuitive is really a bug...

Rendering logic for BiDi text is rather complex - for example when you have an exclamation mark somewhere in text which should be rendered RightToLeft it can lead to reversing the direction depending on the implementation...

For some insight see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/

As it seems .NET is not fully compliant with the Unicode BiDi algorithm... there is even library that tries to implement it see http://sourceforge.net/projects/nbidi/