278698 - Display links left-to-right even when direction set to right-to-left

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-duerst-iri-11.txt, soon to be an RFC,
says:

Bidirectional IRIs MUST be rendered in the same way as they would be rendered if
they were in an left-to-right embedding, i.e.  as if they were preceded by
U+202A, LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING (LRE), and followed by U+202C, POP DIRECTIONAL
FORMATTING (PDF).  Setting the embedding direction can also be done in a
higher-level protocol (e.g.  the dir='ltr' attribute in HTML).

This can be achieved in Chatzilla with the following CSS rule:

a.chatzilla-link {
 direction: ltr;
 unicode-bidi: embed;
}

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

(In reply to comment #0)
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-duerst-iri-11.txt, soon to be an RFC,

This is now RFC 3987

Comment 2

[James Ross]

If someone would like to do a patch, I'll test it out (or try too!) and review it.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Attachment: Patch

Comment 4

[James Ross]

Comment on attachment 188286 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

I couldn't really test this, having little knowledge of RTL locales, and just
messed about with some Japanese and Russian to make sure they still worked.
Nothing seemed not to work. :)

r=silver

Comment 5

[James Ross]

Checked in -> FIXED.