371912 - In shortened subjects with right-to-left scripts, "..." is placed at the wrong side.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: version 2 beta 2 (20070116)

In the 3-pane window, Thunderbird shortens subjects that are too long to fit on the screen. 

With left-to-right scripts, it does it this way:
Re: Abcdefghij   ->  Re: Abcde...

With right-to-left scripts, it clips on the left side, but adds the "..." at the right (i.e. wrong) side. 

Re: jihgfedcbA   ->  Re: edcbA...

(I don't speak any right-to-left language, but I'm pretty sure that the sign indicating an ellipsis should be placed at the point where letters are left out.)

Re: jihgfedcbA   ->  Re: ...edcbA

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to any right-to-left newsgroup (keyword "arabic")
2. List the messages in the 3-pane-window
3. Change the size of the Subject column
4. Watch the subjects, watch where letters are left out.
Actual Results:  
Letters are left out at the left side, but indicating that "..." are added to the right.

Expected Results:  
"..." should be inserted at the point where letters are left out.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Eyal, can you confirm this behavior?

ref: bug 268582, bug 244383

Comment 2

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does this still occur in the latest 2.0.0.x / trunk nightlies?

Comment 3

[Eyal Rozenberg]

This does occurs with English-interface TB 2.0.0.14, but I'm not 100% sure this is invalid behavior.

Comment 4

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Ah, but it happens with the Hebrew, RTLy, interface, and that's not acceptable. However, this can be attributed to the fact that the message list is not RTL-aligned even when the rest of the interface is.

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Looking at the issues, this sounds like it could be an XUL problem.

Comment 6

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Marking this as a duplicate of 860511, though this bug is earlier, 860511 has a simplified test case that might be useful.

Comment 7

[Martin]

This is NOT a duplicate of bug 860511. Looking at the attachment there <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=736004>, the ellipsis ("...") is put at the truncated side for firefox. Compare that with the attachment I created. There, the ellispsis ("...") is not at the truncated side of the text.

Comment 8

[Martin]

Attachment: Ellipsis is not put on the side of truncation

Comment 9

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Moving to Core:XUL per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455336