Closed Bug 122182 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Words displayed in wrong order

Categories

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

x86
OS/2
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 89581

People

(Reporter: cowwoc2020, Assigned: mkaply)

References

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Details

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)
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.

WFM build 2002030608 on mac os
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?
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
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?
Gili, you are arguing for bug 85420, and I fully agree with you :-)
*** Bug 131391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89581 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified dupe
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: Layout: BiDi Hebrew & Arabic → Layout: Text
QA Contact: zach → layout.fonts-and-text
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