Closed
Bug 565009
Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
Trying to insert an English word in the middle of a Hebrew sentence doesn't have the desired BIDI outcome
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 119857
People
(Reporter: reuven, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100503 Firefox/3.6.4 Build Identifier: I use Thunderbird (actually, the nightly Shredder download) on a regular basis. When I use it to compose English, everything works fine. When I use it to compose Hebrew, everything also works fine (except for the fact that text is sent flush left, but that's another issue). But if I'm writing a sentence in Hebrew that needs to contain an English word, this requires that I (a) start the sentence in Hebrew, (b) switch to the English keyboard, (c) type the word in English, (d) switch back to the Hebrew keyboard, and (e) keep typing in Hebrew. This is standard on all word processors and text editors used by Hebrew speakers, and it's expected that the English word will then sit in the middle of the Hebrew sentence. In Thunderbird, however, following this procedure results in the English word sitting to the right of the Hebrew words. In effect, the sentence starts to flow from left to right, with the Hebrew and English interspersed, but in the wrong direction. This happens when I have set the encoding to UTF-8. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a "new message" window 2. Go to the top of the message-body frame. 3. Switch to a Hebrew keyboard. 4. Write one word in Hebrew. 5. Switch to the English keyboard. 6. Write one word in English. 7. Switch back to the Hebrew keyboard. 8. Write a second word in Hebrew. Actual Results: The output looks like this: אבגדה abcde וזחטי But the words should be in the opposite order. That is, אבגדה should be to the right of abcde, and וזחטי should be to the left of abcde.
Comment 1•15 years ago
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Installing http://bidiui.mozdev.org/mail/ will solve this problem.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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