Comments on: Bug 236135 – word-internal tags force word-final shaping in Arabic http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/10/08/bug-236135-word-internal-tags-force-word-final-shaping-in-arabic/ This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:17:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Smokey Ardisson http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/10/08/bug-236135-word-internal-tags-force-word-final-shaping-in-arabic/comment-page-1/#comment-4054 Smokey Ardisson Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:53:23 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2007/10/08/bug-236135-word-internal-tags-force-word-final-shaping-in-arabic/#comment-4054 Wonderful work, guys (and thanks for pointing it out, sayrer)! It’s long been <a href="http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/bidirectional-text.html#zwj" rel="nofollow">known</a> that one had to use ZWJ “hacks” to make in-word style changes in Arabic work correctly in Gecko, and I’m happy to see that’s no longer going to be the case. Now if this would spur Apple to fix WebKit (and ATSUI while they're at it, so all Mac apps would “just work”), the universe would be great :) Wonderful work, guys (and thanks for pointing it out, sayrer)! It’s long been known that one had to use ZWJ “hacks” to make in-word style changes in Arabic work correctly in Gecko, and I’m happy to see that’s no longer going to be the case.

Now if this would spur Apple to fix WebKit (and ATSUI while they’re at it, so all Mac apps would “just work”), the universe would be great :)

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