322777 - Links overlap at Gujarati wiki projects: gu.wikipedia gu.wiktionary gu.wikibooks if page contains RTL characters

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060108 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060108 Firefox/1.6a1

Hallo!

http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/show_bug.cgi?id=3325
== Bug [landfill] 3325:   Links overlap at Gujarati wiki projects: gu.wikipedia gu.wiktionary gu.wikibooks if page contains RTL characters
contains more links and screen shots in order to isolate the problem.

IE renders the pages properly.

Would be happy to know workarounds to overcome this problem.
Tahnks in advance for any feedback.

best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
the size of the browser window should not influenece rendering
hoever it would be usefull to resize the browser windows to similar size as the exmples in the screen shots
Actual Results:  
http://gu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AGangleri%2Ftests&diff=7924&oldid=7895
shows that adding RTL characters cause overlapping

Comment 1

[Spundun]

I get a similar rendering problem on this pages with my Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051217 Firefox/1.6a1 firefox patched with the patch from Bug #121540

I have been comunicating with the poster on this problem.. The problem occurs when the wikipage has RTL text... 

Comment 2

[lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט]

*note*

This problem does not happen at:
bh:, hi:, kn:, ml:, mr:, ne:, pa:, sa:, ta:, te:

Comment 3

[H P Nadig]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This problem does not happen at:
> bh:, hi:, kn:, ml:, mr:, ne:, pa:, sa:, ta:, te:
> 

No, it does happen on sa and kn as far as I've known. Strangely enough, it doesn't seem to happen all the time for me on firefox 1.5. On opening the page once, it renders fine. Shift to another tab, open a web page and revisit the previously opened tab, the rendering goes messy with this kind of overlapping. If you have more than one Unicode font installed for the particular language, the font used previously gets changed too, on doing this.

Comment 4

[John Vandenberg]

Confirm bug on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3; and confirm it does render correctly on Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.

Comment 5

[(no longer active)]

Mass-assigning the new rtl keyword to RTL-related (see bug 349193).