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Re: bidi in mozilla (fwd)





Saw something similar on macs back when, on Arabic texts that were
imported from non-mac. This has to do with a misapplication of the bidi
algorithm to non-directional characters such as spaces, intepreting all
"normal" spaces as LTR spaces, and only RTL spaces (there's a different
code for those) as RTL spaces. The bidi algorithm is supposed to figure
out itself whether a space is RTL or LTR.

thanks,
Uri


On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Isaac Aaron wrote:

> That is the exact thing that was screwed up on Mozilla's bidi support.
> They have reversed the order of the character display, but not the actual
> placing of the words.
> I think maybe that has something to do with the Windows support for bidi,
> because onWindows you get iso-8859-8 encodings correctly.
> 
> linux-il-bounce@cs.huji.ac.il wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Tzafrir!
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:08:22AM +0200, you wrote the following:
> >
> > > Anybody here tested the new bidi support in mozilla?
> >
> > I went to http://www.microsoft.com/israel/ with M14, and it showed a
> > very interesting thing -- each word by itself was written correctly
> > (not reversed), but the words in each paragraph were written from left
> > to right, like English text. Although it's better than how Netscape 4
> > handles it :-), I hope they fix it someday.
> >
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