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List:       mozilla-i18n
Subject:    Re: Window title (was: Re: ibmbidi check in today)
From:       Michael Kaply <mkaply () NOSPAM ! us ! ibm ! com ! netscape ! com>
Date:       2001-02-24 16:28:34
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Just FYI, Internet Explorer does things a little different in this respect.

If it can't display the characters in the Title of the page, it displays the URL
of the page.

It's better than question marks :)

Mike Kaply
IBM

Simon Montagu wrote:

> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il> wrote:
>
> >Something slightly related:
> >
> >Keep in mind that in X11, some parts are not displayed by mozilla: the window
> >title, spesifically. Since most window managers don't support bidi, a logical
> >hebrew window title is displayed reverse.
> >
> >However on envirnments with bidi support this won't be the case.
> >
> >So since this is not controlled by mozilla, it would be desireble that there
> >would be an option for applying logical->visual conversion to the title.
>
> That's a good point, and I think there's a general i18n issue here as
> well as the Bidi issue.
>
> At least in Windows, the window title is displayed in a default font,
> which doesn't necessarily include the characters used in the document
> title. For an example, look at <http://www.netscape.ru/main.html>,
> where the window title appears on my system as "Netscape ? ??????".
> The same thing will happen with a Hebrew or Arabic title, so the
> question of whether the question marks are reordered becomes moot.
>
> I was going to file a bug, but I found an existing one:
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61676
>
> Simon

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