Description: When the user enters a special character (e.g. ".", "/", ":", "@"), it appear at the far left side first before the user enters any other non-special character. For example, when the user types in an email address, instead of "abc@" it displays "@abc". When the user enters a URL, too, the slash first appears at the beginning of the URL instead of the far right side, until a non-special character is entered. This issue seems to occur in multiple input fields, such as the Email field on Add contact screen in Contacts, but NOT in the note field. In Calendar, this error does not occur when adding a new event, but DOES occur when the user tries to add a Yahoo or a Caldav account. Repro Steps: 1) Update a Flame to 20150225010244. 2) Set the device language in Arabic under Settings > Language. 3) Tap the rocket bar, and start typing a URL, such as "https://www.mozilla.org". Actual: The special character appears on the far left side of the text. Expected: The special character appears on the far right as the user types in the field. Environmental Variables: Device: Flame 3.0 (KK, 319mb, full flash) Build ID: 20150225010244 Gaia: f6bfd854fe4746f21bc006eac145365e85f98808 Gecko: 0a8b3b67715a Gonk: e7c90613521145db090dd24147afd5ceb5703190 Version: 39.0a1 (3.0) Firmware Version: v18D-1 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:39.0) Gecko/39.0 Firefox/39.0 Repro frequency: 10/10 See attached: screenshot, logcat, video clip http://youtu.be/f2DG8ObiBFA

This issue also reproduces on Flame 2.2. Result: Special characters appear at the beginning in multiple areas when the user enters. Device: Flame 2.2 (KK, 319mb, full flash) Build ID: 20150225002505 Gaia: ca64f2fe145909f31af266b1730874051ba76c78 Gecko: 16804008c29f Gonk: e7c90613521145db090dd24147afd5ceb5703190 Version: 37.0 (2.2) Firmware Version: v18D-1 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:37.0) Gecko/37.0 Firefox/37.0

This seems like pretty bad behavior so nominating this 2.2?

Adding P1 since it's not blocking yet, in case this can help it get more immediate attention. thanks (also, adding Kaze to get this on his radar)

Triage: This is not a bug but a behavior of Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. The behavior is quirky but there is nothing to fix here unless we want to argue we don't follow that behavior. REOPEN if disagree.

Johnny, can you shed some light on the BDA issues we're seeing here? This doesn't happen in all URLs.

Simon Montagu is probably the best person to help clarify this stuff.

Comment 5 is correct as far as it goes -- it's normal when entering left-to-right text in a right-to-left field or vice versa that neutral characters like "/" or "." etc. jump to the wrong side of the text when entered and then jump back to the expected position after entering another directional character. However I don't agree that there's no way to fix it -- there are solutions which will work some or most of the time. If an input field is always going to be used for URLs you can give it "direction: ltr" in CSS (we did this for desktop Firefox in bug 157607). For a field like the rocket bar that will be used sometimes for URLs and sometimes for search test I suggest using "unicode-bidi: plaintext" for automatic directional depending on the first strong directional character entered -- in fact I would recommend making that the default for all input fields (FTR, that or something equivalent is the behaviour on my Android phone with English Arabic and Hebrew installed)

Reopening per comment 8. Re-nominating as well so this goes through general 2.2 triage decision. Please note this looks really bad and in this particular case, it is a screen often used. thanks!

Based on Comment 8 , this work belongs to system fe

Blocking as team agrees this poor experience is really bad

Comment on attachment 8576868 [details] [gaia] tedders1:bug-1137021-fix > mozilla-b2g:master This attribute was just added by :gmarty in bug 1137715. I'd like to go ahead and redirect/delegate the review to him to make sure that he is aware of the change. Thanks!

Test case has been added in moztrap: https://moztrap.mozilla.org/manage/case/15445/

Comment on attachment 8576868 [details] [gaia] tedders1:bug-1137021-fix > mozilla-b2g:master Thanks Kevin. Every day that passes makes me realise how hard is RTL!

Autolander could not locate a review from a user within the suggested reviewer list. Either the patch author or the reviewer should be in the suggested reviewer list.

Kevin, I think I need you to r+ this too so that Autolander is happy.

Comment on attachment 8576868 [details] [gaia] tedders1:bug-1137021-fix > mozilla-b2g:master R+ stamping this based on Gmarty's review. Thanks!

Pull request has landed in master: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/61b13c3579317402a8603c69ae9e803fc75a0542

Please request Gaia v2.2 on this when you get a chance.

Issue still reproduces in 3.0 on Flame Special characters appear to right of cursor when typing in text fields with an English keyboard and the language set to Arabic. Tested this with web addresses and email addresses as well as random combinations of characters (e.g. http://www.abc.com, abc@def.com, r;a,n!d&o(m), etc.) in Rocketbar, Email, Messages, Contacts, and Calendar (new event and adding Yahoo account.) In email body field the issue still occurs, if user types "http:" the text will appear as ":http". This only occurs in the body field when composing a new message, all other fields (i.e. "to:", "cc:", "bcc:", and "subject:") show the string with the special character on the right. This issue does not occur in the body field while composing an SMS however. Leading to an odd discrepancy between email body behavior and messages body behavior. Device: Flame 3.0 Build ID: 20150317073344 Gaia: 738987bd80b0ddb4ccf853855388c2627e19dcc1 Gecko: 008b3f65a7e0 Gonk: b83fc73de7b64594cd74b33e498bf08332b5d87b Version: 39.0a1 (3.0) Firmware Version: v18D-1 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:39.0) Gecko/39.0 Firefox/39.0

Hi Brogan, Is the email body field the only place you see this still? Or are there any other places? The email body field wasn't mentioned in the initial bug report, so I didn't check it.

I was unable to get the issue to reproduce in any other area except for the email body. Areas I checked: - Rocketbar - Email log-in page fields - Email composition fields (to, cc, bcc, subject, and body) - Messages fields (recipient and body) - Contacts (edit contact page fields) - Calendar (all fields on create event page and add caldav account page)

This issue has been verified successfully on Flame 3.0, when input a website in rocket bar, the special character appears on the far right as the user types in the field. See attachment:video.MP4 Rate:0/5 Flame 3.0 build: pass Build ID 20150317073344 Gaia Revision 738987bd80b0ddb4ccf853855388c2627e19dcc1 Gaia Date 2015-03-17 02:27:51 Gecko Revision https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/008b3f65a7e0 Gecko Version 39.0a1 Device Name flame Firmware(Release) 4.4.2 Firmware(Incremental) eng.cltbld.20150317.111450 Firmware Date Tue Mar 17 11:15:00 EDT 2015 Bootloader L1TC000118D0

We can't fix all places in one bug. In some places this is expected, in some other places this is wrong and we need to accordingly add some markup and/or CSS. Therefore please file a separate bug for the other issues you're seeing. It would make sense to change this bug's title to show what has been fixed here too.

I agree that the email body should be a separate Bugzilla ticket. For both technical reasons and from a user perspective, the email body is a slightly different issue from the others. Also, it wasn't listed in the original description for this bug. Brogan, please file a different bug for the email body, and CC me so I can take it.

Comment on attachment 8576868 [details] [gaia] tedders1:bug-1137021-fix > mozilla-b2g:master [Approval Request Comment] [Bug caused by] (feature/regressing bug #): RTL support (Bug 1064539) [User impact] if declined: Possibly confusing layout of characters and cursor movement while typing URLs and email addresses, and while typing search terms in Rocketbar. [Testing completed]: Green gaia-try run: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=gaia-try&revision=14fa9c106a9b [Risk to taking this patch] (and alternatives if risky): None foreseen. [String changes made]: None

Created bug 1144814

v2.2: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/706bb40677c2073bee95dd6f29e7f122fc4a4e1e

This issue has been verified successfully on Flame 2.2, the special character appears on the far right as the user types in the field in Rocketbar, Message, Email, Contacts, and Calendar apps. See attachment:verify_video.MP4 Rate:0/5 Flame 2.2 build: pass Build ID 20150322002503 Gaia Revision 44c62060581fde8de1e12e94cf55e9673b401a47 Gaia Date 2015-03-20 19:05:17 Gecko Revision https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g37_v2_2/rev/e6140a32902a Gecko Version 37.0 Device Name flame Firmware(Release) 4.4.2 Firmware(Incremental) eng.cltbld.20150322.043216 Firmware Date Sun Mar 22 04:32:27 EDT 2015 Bootloader L1TC000118D0