801396 - No RTL on Firefox locked profile dialog message

Status: NEW

(Mozilla Localizations :: he / Hebrew, defect)

Description

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

Attachment: screenshot from bug 753664

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #753664 +++

When starting Firefox while we have a locked profile, it appears that the error message lost its direction. I suspect this is a regression as I never seen that before. 

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0

Steps to reproduce:
a. Open Firefox.
b. Try to open again the same profile.

Comment 1

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=874239

<blockquote>  The profile in use dialog appears broken on Hebrew and probably on other RTL builds as well. It is caused because we start the message with latin letters which control the direction of the whole paragraph ("FIREFOX still working…"). This could be fixed by either appending an invisible RTL control character at the beginning of the entity, or somehow else.

This issue could occur on other dialogs as well. We should have a mechanism to catch these problems before it is affecting our products.  </blockquote>

Comment 2

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

(In reply to Tomer Cohen :tomer from comment #1)
> See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=874239
> 
> <blockquote>  The profile in use dialog appears broken on Hebrew and
> probably on other RTL builds as well. It is caused because we start the
> message with latin letters which control the direction of the whole
> paragraph ("FIREFOX still working…"). This could be fixed by either
> appending an invisible RTL control character at the beginning of the entity,
> or somehow else.
> 
> This issue could occur on other dialogs as well. We should have a mechanism
> to catch these problems before it is affecting our products.  </blockquote>

The technology for testing this already exists (pseudo-mirroring), it's a matter of either selecting a tool that already performs that operation or building it into tools ourselves. For the mean time, this is an i18n issue. I'll ask around to see how we can get it resolved.

Comment 3

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

Attachment: Windows screenshot (Firefox 29)

Year 2014, Firefox 29, Windows. Bug still not resolved although we can at least workaround it. Let's fix it somehow, even as a temporary fix…

(Image borrowed from http://www.mozilla.org.il/board/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12007)