xaml - Strage effect in silverlight with checkbox and Flow direction

Question

If I Define <Checkbox Content="Text" FlowDirection="RightToLeft"> Text appers on Left side of checkbox

But if if define <Checkbox Content="Text:" FlowDirection="RightToLeft"> Note the : symbol then i see strange effect its not Text: CheckBox but its diplsys :Text Chekbox the : Symbol appers one Left side of text and it is for all that kind of charectes also for ?

Any ideas??

Answer 1

This is by design, as RTL languages expect to have the colon to the left of the text. See this excerpt from the Programming Wpf book.