297401 - parts of hebrew text rendered backwards

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Caleb]

It seems that a few words in the beginning of a sentence are rendered backwards.

To reproduce:
1. Open http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3093611,00.html
2. Scroll down to the "בחדר הלידה" part

The first sentence there is rendered improperly.

Comment 1

[Caleb]

Attachment: a screenshot that shows the problem

Comment 2

[Caleb]

I forgot to mention one more thing, my UA:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050610
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005061021

Comment 3

[Caleb]

cc'ing Asaf and Simon

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Attachment: Minimized testcase

Comment 5

[Uri Bernstein]

This WFM on: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050611 Firefox/1.0+

So it's probably Windows-specific.

Comment 6

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

The bug appears for me on both Windows and Linux (with Pango enabled).

Comment 7

[Eli Friedman]

I can't seem to reproduce this; does it work now? (I'm testing on Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050727 SeaMonkey/1.0a).

Comment 8

[Caleb]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I can't seem to reproduce this; does it work now? (I'm testing on Mozilla/5.0
> (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050727 SeaMonkey/1.0a).

Eli, try refreshing the page a couple of times.

The testcase should say "ממה" instead of "הממ"

Comment 9

[Eli Friedman]

This is really weird.  I can't reproduce this unless I go to Regional and
Language Options and check the "Install files for complex script and
right-to-left languages" box in the Languages tab.  I would guess it has
something to do with the fonts, but I'm not certain.  I'm not sure how much that
helps; I'm not really familiar with the BIDI code.

Comment 10

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

That's not weird at all. We go through a different codepath if the OS has its
own Bidi support, and what you described is the OS-dependent way to turn Bidi
support on. So what you are seeing is consistent with what I said in comment 6:
the bug is limited to systems with native Bidi support.

Comment 11

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This WORKSFORME in today's build. I assume it was fixed by bug 299065.