93665 - Version 0.9.3 and 0.9.2 are going BackWards...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 80577

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

Description

[David Peled]

Hi,
Starting version 0.9.1, theres a new feature enabling self diagnose for the page
Encoding, and automaticly adjusting the browser   encoding  acordingly.
The above site (a Hebrew site) apear allmost perfect under version 0.9.1 (Except
for those question marks...), but in the next 2 versions it's wrong - the words
direction 
is Oposite no  matter  what Encoding   is being Chosen.
Somebody should' check what's wrong.

THKS,
David Peled.

(B.T.W - keep up the good work and Help us crash Bill...)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to BIDI.  That timeframe corresponds to the BIDI landing....

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Reporter, it seems you're referring to the text direction of this page, which can be left-to-
right or right-to-left. The text on this page appears to run right-to-left to me, using Mac/
2001080214 (0.9.3). I, of course, with the Hebrew Language Kit installed.

Am I wrong in believing that Hebrew is a right-to-left language, and thus this  page is 
displaying correctly?

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Can someone attach screenshots? This may or may not be a dupe of bug 80577
and/or bug 81020.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

Attachment: Screenshot of URL under Mac/2001080214, which appears correct to me.

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

The screenshot in attachment 44822 [details] shows a different problem from bug 80577 (see
attachment 34529 [details] and attachment 34530 [details]). There the problem was with the order of
the words: HELLO WORLD (logical) which should be rendered as DLROW OLLEH, was
being rendered as OLLEH DLROW; in this case it is being rendered as ?ELLO WORLD.

The other Mac bidi bugs have been futured, ccing ftang to decide what to do with
this.

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 94743 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

Would someone please confirm this bug or dismiss it? As I don't read Hebrew I really 
can't do it.

Comment 8

[timeless]

this is an old known bug. before bidi landed, macos naturally did things for us 
(although it would mess up for half of the pages). after bidi landed we started 
doing the right thing in general, except we knew that macos would reverse 
everything. -- picking a bug # and duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80577 ***