------- Additional Comments From Avi Drissman 2000-05-24 10:52 ------- I have Mac OS 9, with the Hebrew language kit installed. When I try to view a page with Hebrew, I'm getting the letters in reverse. (I think the page is visual Hebrew, but I'm not sure. (It's http://www.a7.org/hebrew/index.htm; confirm?) Mozilla is using the Mac Toolbox to draw the text. I'm guessing that the Toolbox sees that Hebrew is being drawn and automatically draws it right-to-left. Meanwhile, since the page is already R-L, the letters end up backwards. We're being thwarted here. (build 2000052208; G4/350) --------- Note: this is a spin off from bug 17175, please close if this has been already reported.

One way to solve such a problem is to draw one character at a time instead of char*.It actually works quite fast (at least where i use it (with java)).

Compare bug 80577, but the problem there was different. The site http://www.a7.org/hebrew/index.htm is *logical* Hebrew (charset windows-1255). Reporter: can you test with an up-to-date build of Mozilla (with bidi support)

> can you test with an up-to-date build of Mozilla As soon as I can get it to launch (bug 82142) :-(

OK, got it to launch. This is mostly fixed. There are three problems. 1. The pop-up. It should read "A7 Websites", but it's reversed ("setisbeW 7A"). I'm not sure if that's A7's fault or Moz's. 2. Spacing. Underlining is funky. Reminds me of how things used to look on MozMac all the time. 3. Highlighting. Dragging over the text causes the letters to rearrange themselves as you pass over them.

And one more thing--everything is all flickery. On an English page, dragging the scroll bar is smooth and animated gifs animate. On the Hebrew page, everything flickers. Little white boxes appear in my scrollbar during a drag, and the animated gifs flicker like old movies.

Changing QA contact to giladehven@hotmail.com. Changing component to "Bidi..." and adding intl keyword.

Having a related problem under Windows ME, english edition. Set Edit->Properties->Appearance->Fonts->Font for = Hebrew Type in the url: www.maariv.co.il The page will be displayed correctly. Also, if you left click on any link leading to a Hebrew page it will also diplay correctly. The problem: If you right click on a link and do "open in new window" the Hebrew text will be reversed. Also, if you start on a correctly displayed Hebrew page, and go to an English page by any means, bookmark or typing in the url, then return to the Hebrew page using the back button, the Hebrew text will be reversed.

On my last comment I forgot to mention that I'm using Mozilla 0.9.1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607

Robert, can you open a new bug for your problem with www.maariv.co.il? That is a different issue altogether

we only need one bug about macos bidi troubles... sailorb@netvision.net.il your open in new window problems are unrelated, there is a bug report about it, i think tao owns it. This bug is specifically macos only. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80577 ***