Re: New Firefox Suggestions

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Mohamed Magdy <mohamed dot m dot k at gmail dot com> wrote:
> You can add to the list the implementing of the bidirectional algorithm 
> *1 if it isn't already implemented so that firefox could render Arabic 
> phrases embedded in English texts correctly ...
> 
> There were another thing which happens when you type Arabic text in the 
> location bar and click 'Go' .. the text gets converted to something 
> called 'byte indicators' *2 which is very annoying ... if that could be 
> fixed it would be great ...

I highly suggest that you not only suggest these things but also enter
them into their bug-tracker [1] so that these issues get addressed and
are known to the upstream developers.  If there are any bugs in _any_
application we need to be the first to yell and scream (via entering
various bug reports) what is wrong and the proper functionality should
be noted (short of fixing it ourselves given the proper acumen).

> *1 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/
> *2 Nadim is the one who told me about byte indicators, may be he could 
> explain more ...

To see those "byte indicators" (I believe I was in XP when this happened
using 1.5.0.7) simply enter a URL followed by an arabic string and you'll
see it get transformed once the page is downloaded for some reason.  Go
to our Wiki page [2] and click on the Arabic Page link (Al-Safa7a
Al-Ra'isiya) and note the URL's content.

Don't forget - do please report these bugs and everything else you
(and everyone else) comes across.

BTW: While on the topic we need someone to take charge of an _extremely_
     important wiki page - the OpenBugs [3] page.  Any takers ?

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
[2] http://wiki.arabeyes.org
[3] http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Openbugs

Salam.

 - Nadim


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