260445 - Hebrew / Arabic Live Bookmarks should be Right-to-Left

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[dovix]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

Live bookmarks do not show right justified when there are Hebrew characters. It
should be easy to spot in sites with Hebrew encoding (such as
http://www.whatsup.org.il - windows-1255) and more complicated in sites that use
unicode (e.g. http://www.linmagazine.co.il - utf-8)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.whatsup.org.il
2. Add a live bookmark
3. View the links

Another example: http://www.linmagazine.co.il

Actual Results:  
Live bookmark links are left justified

Expected Results:  
Links should be right justified

Comment 1

[Tsahi Asher]

to be more accurate, hebrew titles should have direction Right to Left, and not
just Right Justified.

Comment 2

[Prognathous]

Confirmed. 

If users of other RTL languages can reproduce this, please report.

Prog.

Comment 3

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Do normal bookmarks get correctly justified to the right?

Comment 4

[Tsahi Asher]

no, bookmark titles get the directionality of the chrome, regardless of the
language they are at.

Comment 5

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> no, bookmark titles get the directionality of the chrome, regardless of the
> language they are at.

Ok; in that case, we can't do anything about this before 1.0 -- we have no way
of selectively right-justifying bookmarks that are in RTL languages (assuming we
can even detect that they're in a RTL language reliably).

Comment 6

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Er, not just right-justifying, but right-justifying and RTL as well, I mean.

Comment 7

[Tsahi Asher]

i think we have to consider if we really want to do this. i live quite happily
with all my bookmarks, both hebrew and english, with the same directionality.
having some bookmarks aligned right and some left doesn't look very aesthetic to me.

Comment 8

[Prognathous]

(In reply to comment #5)
> we have no way of selectively right-justifying bookmarks that are in RTL 
> languages (assuming we can even detect that they're in a RTL language 
> reliably).

Bug 218823 suggests a way to choose the direction automatically.

(In reply to comment #7)
> having some bookmarks aligned right and some left doesn't look very aesthetic
to me.

You may have a point about alignment, but I'm sure you'll agree that having the
word order messed up due to wrong directionality is always bad.

Prog.

Comment 9

[Tsahi Asher]

(In reply to comment #8)
> 
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > having some bookmarks aligned right and some left doesn't look very aesthetic
> to me.
> 
> You may have a point about alignment, but I'm sure you'll agree that having the
> word order messed up due to wrong directionality is always bad.
> 

i agree, although i hadn't seen many pages where this is a real problem. so
bookmarks will have directionality according to their title, and alignment
according to the chrome language.

Comment 10

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This is another case where the "direction: auto" property which I suggested [1]
as an addition to CSS would be useful.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004May/0359.html

Comment 11

[Anne (:annevk)]

Can't we use 'start' as value or '-moz-start'?

Comment 12

[Grzenio Kusnierz]

Also when i copy a hebrew, RTL string and paste it into a form rendered by
firefox the sting gets reversed.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040918 Firefox/0.10

Comment 13

[Ahmad Gharbeia]

Confirmed in Arabic too.

Comment 14

[Ahmad Gharbeia]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Confirmed. 
> 
> If users of other RTL languages can reproduce this, please report.
> 
> Prog.

This is reproducable in Arabic on version 1.0

Comment 15

[Mor Griv]

The http://www.globes.co.il website tries to declare in its feed that the
direction should be RTL, but Firefox ignores that.
Feed URL:
http://www.globes.co.il/webservice/rss/rssfeeder.asmx/FeederNode?iID=585
The subjects are enclosed inside a <span dir="rtl"></span> HTML tags.
Could parsing those HTML tags be a viable solution to the text direction in Live
Bookmarks (and ordinary Bookmarks for that matter)?

Comment 16

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 17

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

This issue is still exists in 3.1b3, and make it complicated to view Arabic and Hebrew titles on English version of Firefox (or any other LTR language), and viewing English titles on Arabic/Hebrew Firefox. 

Ehsan - I am CCing you because you may be interested in this kind of bugs. What do you say?

Comment 18

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.