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

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 332486

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070427 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070427 Firefox/2.0.0.3

I copy the details here as well:

Posting a separate comment in order to open a new bug regarding strange text
selection with the the mouse which relates in *no* way to the position of the
curser moving over the text.

a‭באַניצער:לערי ריינהארט/tests/bugzilla – װיקיװערטערבוך‬z

aבאַניצער:לערי ריינהארט/tests/bugzilla – װיקיװערטערבוךz

Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) position the cursor on top of the second BiDi line;
2) click on the mouse button and hold it pressed
3) move the mouse / cursor to the left or to the right
4) please compare in what direction area the characters are selected

Comment 1

[lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט]

Remedy:  It is possible to click at a location and mark the text having the Shift-key pressed and using arrow keys. This selects the text in a LRO (left to right override) text block as supposed.


Trying to insert here a multiline LRO (left to right override) text block:

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aבאַניצער:לערי ריינהארט/tests/bugzilla
Remedy:  It is possible to click at a location and mark the text having the Shift-key pressed and using arrow keys. This selects the text in a LRO (left to right override) text block as supposed.
באַניצער:לערי ריינהארט/tests/bugzilla –
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Comment 3

[(no longer active)]

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