1450728 - [RTL] A download's date and host origin are mixed due to RTL issues

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect, P3)

Description

[Itiel]

Attachment: Bad VS Good

See attached for examples.

For the 'Bad VS Good' screenshot, in English it'd look like this:
6.7MB – 16 – mercurial-scm.org February
which doesn't make any sense.

I can't seem to workaround it through changing translations.
I think this is due to this part:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/downloads/DownloadsViewUI.jsm#291
Firefox is separating the state, host and date without taking RTL languages into account.
As the "mercurial-scm.org" (as can be seen in the 'Bad VS Good' screenshot) is the dominant text, the "16 בפברואר" part gets LTR'd right afterwards. In the 'Good' part of the screenshot was made by manually inserting RLM marker after the host name.

In the second attachment instead of having:
data resource – 19:48
in fact it's:
resource 19:48 – data

And so on.

Comment 1

[Itiel]

Attachment: More examples

Comment 2

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

ehh, yeah, that could use some bidi isolation marks, Fluent here would be perfect but this seems like a non-trivial refactor to get it into DownloadUtils.

For now, we probably should just hardcode FSI/PDI around each component separately.