288022 - arabic text rendered backwards(LTR) in "some" web sites in firefox 1.0.1 and 1.0.2

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Salem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1

In this page www.alriyadh-np.com, and many other pages, the arabic font is
rendered backward, i.e. from left to right. This problem didn't exist in firefox
1; It only appeared after an upgrade to 1.0.1 and continues to appear in 1.0.2.
The same problem also shows up in mozilla 1.7.6. I'm running firefox on a linux
box running fedora core 3. I tested firefox 1.0.2 on winXp and it works fine,
i.e. it rendered arabic text correctly.

P.S: just for comparison purposes this arabic page www.alwatan.com.sa is
rendered correctly in firefox 1.0.1 and 1.0.2. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open www.alriyadh-np.com in firefox 1.0.1 or 1.0.2 


Actual Results:  
the arabic text is rendered from left to right.

Expected Results:  
arabic text should be rendered from right to left

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Seems to work for me in the latest trunk-build (pre-1.1)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050328
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Salem]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Seems to work for me in the latest trunk-build (pre-1.1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050328
> Firefox/1.0+

Thanks for the quick response Jo. I just tried the latest build Firefox-1.0+ and
it works fine, the bug is fixed.

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

Bugs without patches get resolved as worksforme.