487295 - Hebrew live bookmark titles with more than one line are presented in a wrong order

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Hezy Amiel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009033100 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009033100 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.8

When a title of a RSS feed is in RTL language (e.g. Hebrew) has more than one line, live bookmark fuses the two lines in the wrong order - second line first, and first line second.
"אובמה: על העיראקים לקחת אחריות על ארצם"
is presented as:
"לקחת אחריות על ארצםאובמה: על העיראקים"

This bug depends on bug 260445 - Hebrew / Arabic Live Bookmarks should be Right-to-Left https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260445

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the preview page for the following feed: http://www.nrg.co.il/online/RSS/1.xml
2. subscribe to it using live bookmark
3. compare the titles in the preview page to the live bookmarks 
Actual Results:  
A title that looked like this in the preview page:
אובמה: על העיראקים לקחת אחריות על ארצם
Was presented like this in the live bookmarks:
לקחת אחריות על ארצםאובמה: על העיראקים

Comment 1

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

Attachment: Firefox merge lines in the wrong order - Firefox 3.0.8/en-US, screenshot

You have forgot to mention that you are using the English version of Firefox. On the Hebrew version, chromedir is set to 'RTL', which make the line appear aligned to the right, but the issue is still affecting it. I am attaching a screenshot with short summary.

Comment 2

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

This is how these items appear in the feed. As you can see, they broke the title into two different lines and Firefox merge it back in the wrong order. It should be first line first and than the second, much like how we currently handle English texts. :)

<item>
<link>http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/876/872.html</link>
<title><![CDATA[אובמה: על העיראקים
לקחת אחריות על ארצם]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[נשיא ארה"ב הגיע לבגדד
ואמר לחיילי ארצו כי הגיע
הזמן להעביר את האחריות 
על המדינה. "בזכותכם עיראק
יכולה לעמוד על שלה", אמר<p><img src="http://www.nrg.co.il/images//archive/135x90/1/043/597.jpg"/></p>]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue,07 Apr 2009 20:47:06 +0200</pubDate>
</item>

Comment 3

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

P.S., no I see it is not completely depending on bug 260445, but is "nice to have". Thanks for putting this bug in our attention.

(Adding Smontagu and Ehsan, as they may have something to say about this issue)

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Can someone from the Places team please show me where the title is constructed from the feed?  I have a hard time understanding this bug.

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

This is not a regression, so I don't think that this blocks the release of Firefox 4.  It sucks though, and I'm pretty sure we'd take a fix for this.

(In reply to comment #4)
> Can someone from the Places team please show me where the title is constructed
> from the feed?  I have a hard time understanding this bug.
Marco should be able to help you with that.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.