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 thos
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 on Windows you get iso-8859-8 encodings correctly
some sort of "bidi" support was added at around M11, which totally screwed
up all existing support for visual hebrew, but didn't give logical hebrew.
Recently someone checked-in a better hebrew support, at least according to
news://news.mozilla.org/38D7F5EF.FABFF993%40us.ibm.com
>From the discus
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
Anybody here tested the new bidi support in mozilla?
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