386167 – BIDI - Problems with selection in RTL text

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Bug 386167 - BIDI - Problems with selection in RTL text

Summary: BIDI - Problems with selection in RTL text

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Orion (Archived)
Classification:	ECD
Component:	Editor (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Silenio Quarti
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Reported:	2012-07-27 16:02 EDT by Mihai Sucan
Modified:	2017-01-10 15:40 EST (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Screenshot shows difference between Chrome and FF (15.27 KB, image/png) 2015-06-11 08:13 EDT, Alia Naguib	no flags	Details
Hebrew character selection Example in Chrome and FF (39.63 KB, image/png) 2015-07-19 08:03 EDT, Edith Kouzi	no flags	Details
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Description Mihai Sucan

2012-07-27 16:02:26 EDT

If you try to write in an RTL language you will quickly notice that the cursor movements do not work as expected in other editors and that selection is broken.

Example text:

This is the line of text number 1
مرهبا
شكرا
مها
الله
This is the line of text number 2

Please compare with other editors that offer good RTL editing support.

Comment 1 Ken Walker

2012-08-08 17:33:14 EDT

Any change to this one Silenio or move to M2?

Comment 2 Jin Shi

2015-04-28 02:41:53 EDT

The bidi text selection is still broken on 20150428, it should be in Logical order or visual order when preference provided

Comment 3 Alia Naguib

2015-06-11 08:13:19 EDT

Created attachment 254330 [details]
Screenshot shows difference between Chrome and FF

Comment 4 Alia Naguib

2015-06-11 08:14:53 EDT

The selection is working in Logical order on Chrome. However, running on FF the text Arabic text is highlighted before the cursor movement, which is not the expected behaviour

Comment 5 Edith Kouzi

2015-07-19 08:03:40 EDT

Created attachment 255289 [details]
Hebrew character selection Example in Chrome and FF

Comment 6 Edith Kouzi

2015-07-19 08:04:27 EDT

I am working on a fix for this problem and will share it once it is done

Comment 7 Michael Rennie

2017-01-10 15:40:33 EST

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg04002.html