280810 - When text align is left and some of an Arabic text is selected, some of the letters are not connected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 75011

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Rotem Liss]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Arabic letters should be connected, but when the text align is left (NOT
justify) AND some of the text is selected, the last (and first) letter selected
and the first (or last) letter not selected are not connected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the testcase I will upload soon.
2. Try to select some of the Arabic letters in the first paragraph.
3. Try to select some of the Arabic letters in the second paragraph.
Actual Results:  
In the first paragraph, the last (and first) letter selected and the first (or
last) letter not selected are not connected.

In the second paragraph, the letters are staying connected.

Expected Results:  
The letters are staying connected in the 2 paragraphs.

Comment 1

[Rotem Liss]

Attachment: Testcase

The testcase.

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

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