User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 After a syllable has been created using an Indic Unicode sequence, it should be the unit of display and cursor movement. Additionally, when you select the text with a mouse, the raw Unicode letters are displayed as you select the text creating movement in the text, whereas the display should remain static as you select it. IE/Windows does both these things correctly. So does yudit on Linux. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure you are able to see devanagari, http://geocities.com/alkuma/seehindi.html 2. go to http://geocities.com/hanu_man_ji/hindi_page.html 3. Try select some text Actual Results: The text "breaks", ie if I have a conjunct and I drag the mouse over it, I can actually see the individual characters that make up the glyphs, and depending on the extent to which I drag, I may select either part of the glyph or the full glyph. Expected Results: While this is really fine, and could also be considered as a feature, it would be a little disconcerting to users to see the letters "break up" when the select text. IE does not display this behaviour, the selection happens glyph by glyph and not character (as in unicode character) by character.

> a syllable has been created using an Indic Unicode > sequence, it should be the unit of display and cursor movement. I have no doubt this is the case most of time. [1] I'm wondering, however, if it's always the case. Suppose while entering a syllable made of 4 or 5 Unicode characters (say, KA, Virama, SSA, vowel sign 'x') you realize that 'KA' at the beginning has to be a consonant other than KA. Wouldn't it be more convenient to be able to move the cursor Unicode char. by char to replace 'KA' with the correct one than having to remove the syllable as a whole and to begin from the scratch. Because most Korean input methods have an option to let users delete/move cursor 'vowel/consonant'-wise instead of syllable-wise, I have been wondering what users of Indic scripts expect in this regard. [1] Unicode technical committee gave up definining 'graphemes' for Indic scripts while it provides the definition of graphemes for Korean script.(See UTR #29 : http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/) The reason cited was it's not their job to define what constitutes a 'unit' in Indic scripts and that had better be left to graphalogists(sp?) and Indian people. BTW, what build did you try under Linux? Was it Mozilla-X11core (as opposed to Xft) with CTL enabled? At the moment, only Mozilla-X11core supports Devanagari on Linux.(see bug 204286 for Xft.)

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This is a valid bug, though it may be a dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283416 ***