Re: Future improvment in Mozilla 1.9

Mike Cowperthwaite wrote:
> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>> Gecko 1.8 already supports correct placement of Hebrew/Arabic short 
>> vowels and other diacritics *on Windows* but not on Linux. (I'm not 
>> sure about Mac.)
> 
> Really?  On Windows 2000, Firefox 2.0 doesn't seem to do a good job with 
> the Arabic on that page -- or maybe that text is Persian?  I mean the 
> text that's to the left of your photo, below the Cyrillic.  (Opera 9 
> looks very good, altho I have no idea whether it's actually correct.)

The text below the Cyrillic left of my photo is my name, transliterated into 
vocalized Arabic as "ānṭuwān mahlank" and preceded by the preposition "min" 
(from). I used to be able to see it correctly in Firefox 1.0.7 (IIRC) or in 
IE6 when I was on Windows XP SP2. In Fx2 and Sm 1.5a1 on Linux I see the short 
vowels "between" the consonants, rather than "above" them as they ought to be. 
Konqueror "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror 3.4; Linux 
2.6.11.4-21.14-default; X11; i686; en_US) KHTML 3.4.0 (like Gecko)" displays 
the same text correctly.

The rest of the Arabic text on that page, i.e., "as-salaamu `alaykum" right of 
the photo, and "you are the ...th visitor since the 17th day of January 2002 
after the Birth" [of Jesus] lower down, which are unvocalized, display 
correctly in all the browsers I tried (except Lynx).


Best regards,
Tony.