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Bug 122182
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
Words displayed in wrong order
Categories
(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)
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(Reporter: cowwoc2020, Assigned: mkaply)
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020122 BuildID: 2002012216 In the above page, the description for the first article has words out of place. Compare description text on the main page versus the description text in the actual article and you will notice what words are out of place. It makes reading the main page quite impossible. I would copy/paste the offending text but that's broken too (words are pasted backward). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. visit page 2. read text 3. notice some words are out of place (before/after where they belong)
Comment 1•23 years ago
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As far as I can tell from the verbal description, I think this is a dupe of bug 89581. Try reducing the font size to see if the problem goes away. When reporting a text layout bug, it is always a good idea to attach a screenshot, and (if you can) a minimal HTML test case that exhibits the same behaviour. This is especially important when the bug is on a newspaper site whose content is likely to change frequently.
Comment 2•22 years ago
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WFM build 2002030608 on mac os
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Comment 3•22 years ago
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Two issues: 1) This is a duplicate of #89581 2) Question: since we know the encoding is "Visual Hebrew", can't we (contrary to what the linked article says) know to wrap the text properly?
Comment 4•22 years ago
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no, since in visual Hebrew there is no way to know how to flow the text (the same visual order can have more then one logical resoning). This is a limitation of the visual format
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Comment 5•22 years ago
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It seems to me that the directionality of all web sites creates on Hebrew-based OSs will have the opposite directionality of all web sites creates on English-based OSs, correct? So that means that 99% of the time, when I visit Hebrew-based websites (which are most likely created by someone in Israel) they will all have the same directionality. Why don't we allow the end-user to toggle the directionality of the website he is currently viewing? If the words display backward, you simply toggle the setting and it'll display correctly. The side-effect of giving the end-user the ability to toggle the directionality is that word-wrapping will now work. Also, to keep true to older versions of Mozilla, make the default value for directionality whatever it is now. What do you think?
Comment 7•22 years ago
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*** Bug 131391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8•22 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89581 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: Layout: BiDi Hebrew & Arabic → Layout: Text
QA Contact: zach → layout.fonts-and-text
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