24199 - [BiDi] Arabic Pages are rendered left-to-right!

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect, P3)

Description

[aurag]

Hi,

I must first say congrats. IE was and still is the only browser that can show
you any page in any language.

So this is a big step forward. I am able to see arabic letters on the page, but
not in the right order and not ligatured (is this the word?).

This is not a bug per se, but an important issue.

Mozilla should render a page written in any language (as in speaking languages).

I really wanna ditch IE!

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

Michael: You now own Bi-di, right ?

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Our Bidi team will be working on the Bidi issues so I am accepting this one.

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Attachment: Diffs for first set of Bidi changes - orientation, and scrollbars

Comment 4

[Jim Dunn]

Adding Chris, Patrick and Don to the list of people copied.

Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Attachment: Per Chris Waterson, here is a diff file that uses -u. Sorry about that.

Comment 6

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Attachment: Pictures of right to left Mozilla vs. LTR IE

Comment 7

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Attachment: Picture of hebrew msn

Comment 8

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 9

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

This bug will be fixed when IBMBIDI is turned on

Comment 10

[Andreas Becker]

Changing qa contct to [e-mail].

Comment 11

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass-move all BiDi Hebrew and Arabic qa to me, [e-mail]. 
Thank you Gilad for your service to this component, and best of luck to you 
in the future.

Sholom. 

Comment 12

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Arabic QA to maha.

Comment 13

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Cleaning up all the old outstanding general Bidi functionality bugs now that bug
92797 is checked in.