75004 - Bidi: Characters in Unicode UTF-8 are displayed reversed on US system

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Maha Abou El-Rous]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98)
BuildID:    00000000 - Bidi build dated 20010404

Unicode Arabic text is displayed reversed on a US system


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open file ken.htm


Actual Results:  Arabic text is displayed reversed

Expected Results:  Arabic text should be displayed as with IE5

Comment 1

[Maha Abou El-Rous]

Attachment: Arabic Unicode text inside a table is displayed reversed on US system

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

we are focusing on landing IBMBIDI without breaking CJK and Latin. Move bidi 
functional bugs to moz0.9.1

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

The Arabic Hebrew and Farsi text in this example are in visual order (which is
incorrect for UTF-8) so Mozilla's behaviour here is correct.

On selecting Bidi Options | Text Type | Visual, the text is displayed as expected.

The Arabic and Farsi are displayed correctly in IE5 because two errors are
cancelling one another out: the visual order and the fact that IE5 doesn't
classify Bidi characters in the FExx range as right-to-left. Note that the
Hebrew text is displayed reversed in IE5 and AFAIK there is no way in the UI to
correct this.

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

erik resign. reassign all his bug to ftang for now.

Comment 5

[Frank Tang]

according to simon. mark this bug as invalid

Comment 6

[Andreas Becker]

Verifying as invalid according to Simon's comment. Please reopen in case someone 
disagrees.