1935958 - Incorrect truncation of LTR strings in RTL mode (Firefox for desktop)

Status: NEW

(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect)

Description

[William Durand [:willdurand]]

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While investigating Bug 1915867, we noticed that Firefox for desktop might have a bug with how we truncate LTR strings in RTL mode. That can happen when the content is supplied by an API, e.g. in about:addons via the AMO API when the add-on isn't localized in all locales (and, in this case, we return a fallback string, which is - in most cases - an en-US string).

The screenshot shows that we truncate the string as if it was a RTL string, but that seems incorrect per some discussions with the l10n team. The expectation is that - because it is a LTR string - we truncate on the right, not on the left.

We have a good example with about:addons but I don't know if this is a problem only on this page, or if other parts of Firefox for desktop are affected in a similar manner. I also don't know what we would like to do here, so let's discuss.

Comment 1

[Itiel]

See also bug 1623373

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:eemeli, could you have a look please?

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