252716 - Characters change while selecting arabic text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 75011

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Matus Horvath]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8

Arabic script has more then one form for each letter -- for example, the same
letter looks different when it is in the middle of a word or at the end of a word.

When selecting text written in arabic script, letters change from one form to
another, because Firefox apparently places a virtual 'end of word' at the end of
current selection. For example, you have a word 'abcd', where a, b, c, d are
arabic letters. Letters b and c have the middle-of-the-word form. If you select
'ab', letters b and c change to start-of-the-word and end-of-the-word forms
respectively. The efect is that the whole word changes dynamically as you select it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.noor.gov.jo/soon.htm
2. There is an arabic inscription in the middle of the page. Using your mouse,
try to select the inscription one letter after another.


Actual Results:  
As you proceed selecting the letters, they change their form.

Expected Results:  
Letters should stay the same while being selected.


Disclaimer: I don't speak arabic, I only found this bug by chance. But the
behaviour differs from that of MS IE and I believe they do it the right way.

Comment 1

[Tim Meader]

Works for me on 20040718 branch build. Adding keyword "trunk build" to whiteboard.

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75011 ***