304523 - inline html tags break arabic joining

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236135

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

Description

[Behnam Esfahbod [:zwnj]]

inline html tags should not break arabic joining.

next attachment shows rendered page of URL in firefox on my linuxbox.

i'm not sure about the windows backend.  would someone test it please?

i think there was a bug for this, but i couldn't find it.  so report again.

also, i think we should ask css3 people to note it on text module.

Comment 1

[Behnam Esfahbod [:zwnj]]

Attachment: inline tag breaked arabic joining

those 2 red "ی" should be joined like the input box.

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: screenshot win98

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050813 SeaMonkey/1.0a

The inbox doesn't show joined characters, but one question mark, also seen in
view-source. Seems joined characters are made of two parts, the first (right
one)  of them missing here. Does Mozilla provide the font, or my win98 (1st
ed.)?

Comment 3

[Behnam Esfahbod [:zwnj]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The inbox doesn't show joined characters, but one question mark, also seen in
> view-source. Seems joined characters are made of two parts, the first (right
> one)  of them missing here. Does Mozilla provide the font, or my win98 (1st
> ed.)?

Thanks you for the test.

Ok, so the problem exist in windows too.

About that question mark; it's a well-known problem with FARSI YEH in Microsoft
Tahoma font.  It didn't have INIT and MEDI forms of the character.  You need to
update your fonts from Microsoft's website.

Comment 4

[Uri Bernstein]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236135 ***