663292 - The closing parenthesis in جورج_(توضيح) not displayed correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Biju]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:6.0a2)
Gecko/20110528 Firefox/6.0a2

http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/جورج_(توضيح)
ie
decodeURI("http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%28%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%AD%29")

It looks like the closing parenthesis on above url with Arabic Text is not displayed at correct place. It appear different on wikipedia article title and URL bar.  I also noticed this on TEXTAREA and INPUT form control etc.

I feel it should appear like ( جورج_(توضيح 

PS: I dont read/write/speak Arabic 
I assume this issue will be there in Hebrew also.

Comment 1

[Biju]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(disambiguation)

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I think this is probably correct, though somewhat unfortunate.  The URL bar is inherently left-to-right, because URLs are inherently left-to-right, so a parenthesis at the outer edge of a chunk of right-to-left text matches its left-to-right container.

Within the article, everything is right-to-left so the parentheses are both right-to-left.

But opinions of those who actually do read bidirectional languages probably matter more here.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Yes, as things stand this is correct. There has been some discussion recently on http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-iri/ about defining a "higher protocol" for displaying Bidi IRIs, though I don't think this specific issue has come up yet.

Comment 4

[Biju]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I think this is probably correct, though somewhat unfortunate.

Yes it is difficult, in case of
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/something(andجورج_(توضيح))
There are 2 parentheses at the end.
Where the last is displayed at right place,
but one before should go soon after "/something(and"

So basically the corresponding opening parenthesis decide how closing parenthesis should appear.

So I have another suggestion 
in indic unicode characters we have "\u200B" "\u200C" to decide how a character next to it should appear.
May be we need some thing like that in UniCode for parenthesis to tell how it should appear ie, appear as "right-to-left" or appear as "left-to-right" even in middle of "right-to-left" characters.

Comment 5

[(no longer active)]

We do have those characters (see LRM, RLM, PDF et al), and if the page uses them, the URL appears correctly.  Example:

http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/جورج_(توضيح)‏
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_(%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%AD)%E2%80%8F

(I was stunned that wikipedia actually shows the correct page under that situation!)

But it's true that the current situation with bidi URIs is sad.  This bug is invalid nevertheless.  :/ :(