42183 - [BiDi] Applying RTL style seems to screw up other styles

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect, P3)

Description

[Prabhat Hegde]

I did the following:

A> Build mozilla nightly 06/07/00 on Solaris     8 sparc en_US.UTF-8 locale.
B> Edit prefs.js to try BiDi changes      user_pref("browser.display.direction",
1);
C> Browse the URL mentioned above. 

Result:

Find that line breaking is wrong. (For ex Under "Customize Encoding Menu", text
with bold style "No conclusion yet" is garbled with previous sentence "agree
with Erik".

I suspect this has something to do with applying 2 styles to the same content
because same is not observed in the absence of a bold style text in the
paragraph.

Please also let me know what is the right
category for BiDi related bugs as i will be
an active participant from now on.

prabhat.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

bi-di issue. reassign to [e-mail] and cc erik

Comment 2

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 3

[Vladimir Strigun]

I reproduced this bug :

with 04/06/2001 nightly under WinNT4.0
with 04/08/2001 nightly under RH Linux 6.2

Soma part of sentence writed with bold style
For example: under windows in sentence 

"No wonder do they" only "No" is a bold text

Comment 4

[Raghu Sakleshpur]

I see that the last few sentences under Customize Encoding Menu and Context
Language Support show up in bold letters when I tried on Linux and Win NT
platforms. Not sure if this is the same problem that prabhat is referring to. If
it is so we will need to update this bug report to All platform and OS
categories..

Comment 5

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass-move all BiDi Hebrew and Arabic qa to me, [e-mail]. 
Thank you Gilad for your service to this component, and best of luck to you 
in the future.

Sholom. 

Comment 6

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This seems to be fixed now, but currently there is no way to test it in trunk
builds because the preferences aren't hooked up. Marking dependency on bug 88100.

Comment 7

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Bidi prefs are now on and you can set the whole browser RTL.

This page displays fine.

Comment 8

[(no longer active)]

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