[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 42048] New: Hebrew with 'charset=iso-8859-8' and 'dir=rtl' displayed incorrectly

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42048

           Summary: Hebrew with 'charset=iso-8859-8' and 'dir=rtl'
                    displayed incorrectly
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Layout and Rendering
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: ophers at gmail.com


I'm using Google Chrome to open the attached html page.
The second row in the table is rendered incorrectly in Chrome.

These browsers display the page correctly:
  Firefox 3.x: OK
         IE 7: OK
         IE 8: OK

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open attached html file in IE, FF and Chrome
2. the second row in the table is rendered incorrectly in Chrome.

What is the expected result?
The second row in the table should be rendered as in IE and FF.

What happens instead?
Hebrew in the second row in the table is backwards as if Chrome is ignoring 
the 'dir=rtl' attribute.

Please provide any additional information below:
RFC1556 defines 'Visual directionality' (indicated by 'charset=iso-8859-8') 
as:
   Visual directionality is a presentation method that displays text
   according to the primary display direction only, which is left to
   right.  All text is viewed in the same direction which is the primary
   display direction.  The displaying application is not aware of the
   contents direction and displays the text as if it were a uni-
   directional text. ...

When an element has 'dir=rtl' attribute IE and FF treat the "primary display 
direction" as being Right-To-Left. Chrome does not.

Over at Chrome issue tracker http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38197#c4 this was confirmed to also be a problem with Safari.
Comment 6 later on requested for the issue to be upstreamed.

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