What's New
- BiDi Mail UI 0.9.7 is available!
Other Stuff
Users of languages that are written from right to left, such as Arabic, Persian and Hebrew, require special support in many applications, including those provided by the Mozilla project: the web browser and the mail & newsgroups client. Not only is bac kend support required for manipulation and display of content in different directions - such as is to be found, usually to satisfaction, in the Mozilla suite, the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client - necessary, but the user interface for maki ng use of such capabilities must also be made available.
For this reason the BiDi UI project @ MozDev exists: to offer extensions which provide user interface for direction control and use of direction-related unicode features, as well the smoothing over of some kinks in underlying BiDi supp ort.
Currently, two extensions are available:
- BiDi Mail UI, for the Mozilla suite and the Thundebird Mail&News clients
- BiDi Browser UI, for the Mozilla suite and the Firefox browsers; this extension is partly obsolete (see link for details).
Both of these partially correspond to BiDi-related bugzilla bugs (see the two subsections for bug numbers), and can also be thought of as workarounds for them.