Re: Thunderbird extension for switching to RTL

[Ayman Hourieh <aymanh at gmail dot com>]

Salam,

After searching Bugzilla, I found this bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96057

I wonder why BiDi controls aren't added to Mozilla's composer.

The extension would be a hack if it was for plaintext editing,
however, it's for HTML emails, I think dir="rtl" is the correct way to
fix the problem, or at least this is what I managed to figure out from
the bug report, any ideas?

Ayman

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:45:54 -0700 (PDT), Nadim Shaikli
<shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> Ouch...  Sounds like Bidi needs to be integrated ASAP.  We all know that
> the browsers (be it mozilla proper or firefox) have Bidi, could there be
> something there that one can adopt for ThunderBird ?  Is anyone working
> on ThunderBird even talking about Bidi ?  If not then a bug report akin
> to "Need to add Bidirectionality (bidi) functionality" with a reference
> to Unicode's TR#9 might help along with a note that the browsers already
> do that.
> 
> [...]
>
> Ayman, I think those are midterm hacks (I wouldn't even call 'em solutions).
> If you end-up doing that then do under the banner of "learning" or "for fun"
> :-) since it will not really solve Arabic users' needs.  Only Bidi will.
> Meanwhile, and I don't know if ThunderBird offers this or not, you can
> spawn Katoob (or similar) and "do the right thing" (as Katoob has proper
> Arabic support) then have it passed back the email contents back to TB
> (or vice versa for reading) for consumption.
> 
> Salam.
> 
> 
> 
>  - Nadim
>