119861 - When Hebrew is the default encoding, western pages display incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Shoshannah Forbes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020111
BuildID:    20022011108

When windows-1255 is the defult encoding, wester pages display incorrectly, with
text overlapping

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
in the browser pefrences, change the defult encoding to windows-1255


Actual Results:  see how mozilla.org and bugzilla pages are displayed
incorrectly (or many other western pages)

Expected Results:  they should display fine

Comment 1

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Attachment: Bugzilla page in Mozilla when mozilla is set to 1255

Comment 2

[timeless]

instead of using that app, please try: command (a.k.a the Apple key) - shift - 
3. The image should land in the root of your startup disk.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Mac specific Bidi bug -> ftang

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

cc nhotta. set to m99. Mac display issue. I see this kind of thing before in non
bidi page. somehow the drawstring and gettextdimension get different width.

Comment 5

[Frank Tang]

give to nhotta, move to 1.0
add nsbeta1

Comment 6

[nhottanscp]

qawanted, more cases needed for the decision (nsbeta1+ or nsbeta1-)

Comment 7

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: screen shot when login this bug report page with windows-1255 charset

I don't see the original overlapped, but the cursor is not in correct position
when typing something into a text field.
 
I'm using Mac9.1-JA

If we want to determine it to a general problem with other charsets, I need
more investigate later.  But seems this problem is bidi-related.

Comment 8

[nhottanscp]

Is this Mac only?

Comment 9

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I see nothing like this bug on either Windows or Linux with default encoding
Windows-1255, so I believe it is Mac-only

Comment 10

[Yuying Long]

Yes, Mac only, but I can not check it on Mac OS X due bug 126277.

Comment 11

[nhottanscp]

nsbeta1- per i18n triage

Comment 12

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to ftang.

Comment 13

[Shoshannah Forbes]

build 2002031708: my default charset is hebrew visual: this bug is less bad, but
still here. attaching screen shot

Comment 14

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Attachment: this page when the default encoding is hebrew visual

Comment 15

[Shoshannah Forbes]

This bug is really annoying when tring to edit my bugzilla comments... It also
appearsit chatzilla, making it a real pain to read text with links  or edit what
I am saying

Comment 16

[Shoshannah Forbes]

hmmm... going over my bugs, this looks like it might be related to bug 172569.
any clue?

Comment 17

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 18

[Frankie]

Mac CFM RIP.