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Wrong text direction for RTL (Arabic, Hebrew) in Status bar

Bug #490695 reported by abdullahc on 2009-12-01

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This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Mozilla Firefox	Invalid	Medium	mozilla-bugs #477189
	firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

In case of an RTL, the status bar text:

- Right aligned ... Correct
- LTR directed ... Wrong

Direction: must be RTL.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 8c1f6b6738f7f04fe69af22e1bd8c1df
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Tue Dec 1 07:47:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=ar_DZ.UTF-8
LANG=ar_DZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

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In Mozilla Bugzilla #477189, Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny) wrote on 2009-02-28:

#1

Created an attachment (id=364673)
Screenshot

The arabic text (marked with red) should be to the right of the url, it seems that that line base direction is set to LTR while it should be RTL either depending on the first strong BiDi char or following the all over UI direction.

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abdullahc (sneetsher) wrote on 2009-12-01: Worng text direction for RTL (Arabic, Hebrew) in Status bar

#2

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

In case of an RTL, the status bar text:

- Right aligned ... Correct
- LTR directed ... Wrong

Direction: must be RTL.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 8c1f6b6738f7f04fe69af22e1bd8c1df
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Tue Dec 1 07:47:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=ar_DZ.UTF-8
LANG=ar_DZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

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abdullahc (sneetsher) wrote on 2009-12-01:

#3

Screenshot.png Edit (13.2 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profile_default_pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (5.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Usama Akkad (damascene) wrote on 2010-03-31:

#4

Thanks for reporting this,
could you please provide a screen-shot or any useful information related to help reproduce this here

Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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abdullahc (sneetsher) wrote on 2010-03-31:

#5

I have attached one* already, using:

LANGUAGE=ar_DZ.UTF-8 LANG=ar_DZ.UTF-8 firefox

Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

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Usama Akkad (damascene) wrote on 2010-04-01:

#6

screenshot Edit (14.5 KiB, image/png)

I'm on Lucid it seems to be fixed there. could you please test it on Lucid
firefox: 3.6

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Usama Akkad (damascene) wrote on 2010-04-01:

#7

I've found upstream bug but they didn't state it as fixed there

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-04-01

Changed in firefox:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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abdullahc (sneetsher) wrote on 2010-04-08:

#8

@#6

Yeah, It has been fixed. I have test in Lucid/Firefox 3.6.x.

abdullahc (sneetsher) on 2010-04-09

Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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In Mozilla Bugzilla #477189, Tomer Cohen (tomer-gmx) wrote on 2010-08-23:

#9

Dupe of bug 402240?

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In Mozilla Bugzilla #477189, Ehsan-mozilla (ehsan-mozilla) wrote on 2010-08-23:

#10

(In reply to comment #2)
> Dupe of bug 402240?

Yes. Anas, please take a look at bug 402240 comment 2.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 402240 ***

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-08-24

Changed in firefox:
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

Yaron (sh-yaron) on 2010-09-14

summary:

- Worng text direction for RTL (Arabic, Hebrew) in Status bar
+ Wrong text direction for RTL (Arabic, Hebrew) in Status bar

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-18

Changed in firefox:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Invalid → Unknown

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2015-04-08

Changed in firefox:
status:	Unknown → Invalid

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