332486 - Selection mirrored on visual Hebrew sites

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Select text with the mouse at a site using visual Hebrew, e.g. http://www.hitechjob.co.il/

The area selected is a mirror image of the area where the selection gesture takes place. For example, if you click in the center of the line and move to the left, the selection starts in the center of the line and grows to the right. This is hard to describe clearly, but very obvious if you try it. The same thing happens with text reversed by unicode-bidi: bidi-override.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

This WFM on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060401 Firefox/1.6a1

So I guess it's Linux- (or Linux/Windows-)specific.

Comment 2

[Bengt-Erik Soderstrom]

I also see this -mirrored Hebrew- in my Linux build:



Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060402 SeaMonkey/1.5a

FC5, gcc 4.1.0,

Configure arguments
--enable-application=suite --enable-crypto --enable-extensions=default
--disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-optimize=-O2
--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 --disable-canvas
--disable-svg 

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

http://www.hitechjob.co.il/ no longer uses visual Hebrew, but testing on http://smontagu.org/testcases/bidiset2.html (visual Hebrew) and http://smontagu.org/testcases/bidiset5.html (English with right-to-left override) shows that this is WORKSFORME on trunk.

Regression tests would be good, but I don't know a way to simulate mouse movement in test frameworks.

Comment 5

[lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט]

(In reply to comment #3)
> *** Bug 406899 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

re: Bug 406899 – selecting a text inside a LRO (left to right override) text block with the electing a text inside a LRO (left to right override) text block with the mouse is messy

I opened bug 406899

It works fine on Mac OS 10.5.1 build 9818 and

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11