421690 - Firefox with he/ar UI displays print headers reversed for non-rtl pages

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect, P1)

Description

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

Attachment: mozilla.org print preview

When I try to print English page from Firefox with Hebrew layout, I gets the print headers reversed. I.e., "Page 1 of 2" displayed as "עמוד 1 מתוך 2" instead of "עמוד 1 מתוך 2". This issue affect both the Print Preview and the actual print. 

I can't reproduce it on http://www.wikipedia.org, but on http://www.mozilla.org it is visible (both do not specify dir=rtl, and are UTF-8 encoded). I'm attaching a screenshot.

Comment 1

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

Attachment: Print settings

Note that it is displayed correctly in the printer settings dialog.

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This is a regression since Firefox 2.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Attachment: Patch

This is happening because bidi is disabled when there are no RTL characters on the page apart from the headers and footers (which is why the bug doesn't appear on wikipedia).

Comment 4

[Damon Sicore (:damons)]

Marking as blocking1.9+ w/P2.  Also, approving patch.

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Checked in. Marking in-testsuite- since as far as I know we have no way to reftest print preview, but feel free to change that if I am wrong.

Comment 6

[(no longer active)]

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