Comment 34 for bug 1425387

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David Mathog (mathog) wrote :

Here are four examples of Hebrew and mixed Hebrew/English in SVG and PNG. Two things to test for any change: 1) that it renders the same, 2) that it does the same thing when more Hebrew or English letters are pasted or typed in between existing letters of that type. (Inserting characters at the interface between two languages is, as I recall, really touchy and kind of unpredictable.)

I think these all use the Ezra Sil font, or Ezra Sil SR, those can be downloaded from here:
   http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ezrasil_home
If that font isn't present and it fails over to some other it will probably look dreadful.

I just noticed that for a single or multiple line Hebrew text string changing the justification R->C or L works OK, but doing another one right after it causes the text "box" to jump laterally. Testing..., yes it looks like changing from C or L justification is broken. I don't recall that happening in older versions. Easy to demonstrate with the formatted_text_he example. This was revision 14192. Testing with English text, yes, that has a similar problem. Just select some text with justification and click around on the R,C,L buttons and it will eventually jump. I need to report that.