464235 - Bidi text renders in reverse order in SVG

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 311545

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Philip Taunton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

Using text phrases that contain bidi text in an SVG diagram results in the right-to-left parts of the text being presented in reverse order. It would appear the text has been drawn in logical order (the order of the characters in the UTF-8 string), and not the natural presentation order.

This only fails on Firefox 3 (and newer). Tested with 3.0.3, 3.0.5pre and 3.1b2pre. It is a regression from Firefox 2.0.0.x (checked with 2.0.0.16) where the text is presented correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an SVG drawing surface
2. Add a text node containing bidi text
3. Bidi text on the SVG surface will be rendered incorrectly

example text: العملية_الأولى.txt    شركة ١ ٣ ٥ ٧.xml
Actual Results:  
See testcase (cant cut and paste from SVG surface)

Expected Results:  
Text should be as per example text

Testcase will be attached.

Comment 1

[Philip Taunton]

Attachment: Sample test for bidi text in SVG