Re: Arabic on Mozilla

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Fadi Mansour <redeemer at scs-net dot org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently using Mozilla 0.9.3 under Linux, it do display Arabic
> characters,
> but unfortunately, they are not right-to-left, and not connected (no
> legatures),
> Are you referring to a newer version, or can I do something to correct how
> Arabic pages are displayed?
> 

Unless Roozbeh notes otherwise, I believe PR-82383 is a show-stopper
in terms of displaying shaped (ie. correctly connected) characters.
Thus rendering Mozilla useless in relation to Arabic/Persian.

  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82383

The topic has been brought up a number of times on

  http://groups.google.com/groups?group=netscape.public.mozilla.i18n

to no avail.

 - Nadim

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