Complex Expressions (URLs, emails,..etc) with Bidi text are not ordered correctly when direction is RTL

[Alia Naguib]

Locale: English

Browsers: IE8/Windows 7 & FF10/Windows 7

Procedure:

1- Set the direction to RTL (use dir="rtl")

2- Create a set of radio buttons

3- Create a set of check boxes

4- Set the labels of the radio buttons and check buttons with English and any bidi language.

Ex: - English (123) عربي 123

• c:/Desktop/الحافظة الأولى‎/الحافظة الثانية‎/الملف‎.txt
• First Choice: All English (123)
• الاول‎.الثاني‎@السرفر‎.com

Expected Result:

1- Text maintains the same order even when the direction is set to right to left (RTL)

Actual Result:

1- The text is not ordered correctly. Brackets are misplaced and Arabic text is in reversed order

Ex: - c:/Desktop/الحافظة الأولى/الحافظة الثانية/الملف.txt

• ( All English (123

[Douglas Hays]

I'm not sure I understand. Isn't the label under the control of the web page author and not the CheckBox widget? So you would do something like:
<label for="cb1"><BDO dir="LTR">c:/Desktop/الحافظة الأولى‎/الحافظة الثانية‎/الملف‎.txt</BDO></label>

[Douglas Hays]

patch from Hossam Katory (IBM, CCLA)

[Alia Naguib]

Yes, but it is a hassle for the author to modify each and every widget. Simply the "dir" attribute will be set for the whole form or checkbox group and the labels should be adjusted automatically without having to modify each one. Also, there is the case where the direction is inherited from other parent tags.

[Douglas Hays]

The LABEL tag is not part of a widget but is native HTML and not under the control of any widget. This is an enhancement request that will cause code-bloat for everyone and only benefit a few labels with mixed-content.
bill, do you want this code added?

[bill]

It comes back to #11611. It's not dijit's job to handle the LABEL tag at all, unless the label tag is part of the Checkbox widget. So let's keep this closed and just use that ticket.