Rotated text shows counterintuitive line ordering in Writer

[Miikka-Markus Alhonen]

Text rotated through Character > Position appears to rotate each line of text separately and order them according to the text direction of the paragraph, i.e. in an English text, placing the first line leftmost and in an Arabic text, placing the first line rightmost, regardless of whether the text was rotated 90 or 270 degrees. As a user, I would expect the whole paragraph to be rotated as a whole, so that if the page is printed out, the paragraph could be read the way it would naturally be written.

See the attached screenshot, where the English text rotated 90° reads correctly, whereas the 270° rotation produces the wrong line ordering. In Arabic, the opposite is true: 270° rotation presents the text as expected whereas 90° has the lines reversed.

Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
  Candidate: 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 500
        500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.5 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security/main amd64 Packages
     1:5.4.1-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://mr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: libreoffice-writer 1:5.4.6-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-41.46-generic 4.13.16
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-41-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon May 21 17:04:32 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-13 (462 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-11-05 (196 days ago)

[Miikka-Markus Alhonen (malhonen)]

The ODT document used to create the screenshot.