From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1 Description of problem: On http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/9/678467 the hebrew text is displayed backwards (except caption of an article), no matter what hebrew encoding I choose. This problem is specific to firefox for FC3 and does not happen in any other mozilla based browser (mozilla/epiphany/galeon). It also does not happen with firefox downloaded from mozilla.org. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.1-1.3.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/9/678467 2. 3. Additional info:
Recompiling firefox without the pango-related patches (30,31,32) fixes the issue.
It appears to be related to a fixed bug in Ubuntu: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6590 I work with an updated version of FC3, and Firefox 1.0.2. As far as i remember, the bug wasn't there before i updated my OS. The bug wasn't resolved when i (sudo) edited /usr/bin/firefox so that the folowing lines: MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1 export MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO would change to #MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1 #export MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO I hope this bug will be fixed soon.
This was previously a RTL language + pango bug. This appears to be fixed, however I am unfamiliar with Hebrew so I am not entirely sure. Maybe eng-i18n can help to verify this. Please do testing on any recent firefox for FC3, FC4, or FC5 *BUT NOT* RHEL.
In current firefox on FC4 (version 1.0.7-1.1.fc4) the page looks fine.
Just to confirm, this is without using MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO right?
Right.
OK thanks!