95400 - Copied hebrew text is not rendered right

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Stanislav Malyshev]

If I go to Hebrew site (in 'logical' display order, e.g.
http://news.walla.co.il/) and select there a text and copy it, then try to paste
it to a text widget, the text renders in a wrong (reversed) way. At the same
time, if I type it, the text is rendered OK.

The browser revision is 0.9.3 (2001080312).

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I tried to reproduce this on WinNT (US), and found that when I pasted the text
it appeared reversed, but as soon as I added any other character to the text
widget the whole text was reordered correctly. Does the same thing happen in Linux?

Comment 2

[Stanislav Malyshev]

Yes, same effect. Also, if I delete some hebrew text and then press "Undo", it
reappears reversed. If I type something, it becomes OK.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I'll take this one

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I thought this would be a no-brainer, but it turns out to be more complicated.
In fact the contents of a text field are never reordered after the first
keystroke, but since one keystroke normally only enters one character into the
field, nobody noticed that it hadn't been reordered. I need to do more debugging
of the reflow process to understand exactly why this happens and how to correct it.

Comment 5

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass-move all BiDi Hebrew and Arabic qa to me, [e-mail]. 
Thank you Gilad for your service to this component, and best of luck to you 
in the future.

Sholom. 

Comment 6

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** Bug 120247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Marking ALL since this bug is also on Mac OSX

Comment 8

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

It seems that attachment 81953 [details] [diff] [review] in bug 95228 fixes this bug as well.

Comment 9

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Marking FIXED