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* Improve complex glyph rendering
* Improve complex glyph rendering
* Support more complex languages (Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, pangool, all Indian languages)
* Support more complex languages (Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, pangool, all Indian languages)
* Multilingual browser, to allow single binary for multilingual systems
* Multilingual browser, to allow single binary for multilingual systems
* Being able to switch user-interface language ''without'' restarting the browser.
* Being able to switch user-interface language ''without'' restarting the browser.
* The implementing of the bidirectional algorithm #1 if it isn't already implemented so that Firefox could render Arabic #2 phrases embedded in English texts correctly.#1 : see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ #2 : not restricted to Arabic only but to all RTL complex scripts.
* The implementing of the bidirectional algorithm #1 if it isn't already implemented so that Firefox could render Arabic #2 phrases embedded in English texts correctly.#1 : see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ #2 : not restricted to Arabic only but to all RTL complex scripts.


* Convert/Fix/Implement the Unicode control characters or the 'byte code'to the real script,which happens when you type Arabic #2 text in the location bar and click 'Go', the text gets converted to weird characters(Unicode control characters).
* Convert/Fix/Implement the Unicode control characters or the 'byte code'to the real script,which happens when you type Persian or Arabic #2 text in the location bar and click 'Go', the text gets converted to weird characters(Unicode control characters).


; Localization
; Localization
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<th colspan="2">MALAYALAM support</th>
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Please try to include the support for Malayalam language followed by millions of people from the Kerala state in India. IE already supports this.
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<th colspan="2">Indian "Languages"</th>
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Can we stop calling Indian languages "dialects"? And yes, I support the previous comment, firefox still doesn't render Indic scripts (you need to recompile with pango etc). This needs to be fixed.
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Revision as of 08:36, 10 November 2006

« Firefox/Feature Brainstorming

Specific features References
Language support
  • Improve complex glyph rendering
  • Support more complex languages (Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, pangool, all Indian languages)
  • Multilingual browser, to allow single binary for multilingual systems
  • Being able to switch user-interface language without restarting the browser.
  • The implementing of the bidirectional algorithm #1 if it isn't already implemented so that Firefox could render Arabic #2 phrases embedded in English texts correctly.#1 : see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ #2 : not restricted to Arabic only but to all RTL complex scripts.
  • Convert/Fix/Implement the Unicode control characters or the 'byte code'to the real script,which happens when you type Persian or Arabic #2 text in the location bar and click 'Go', the text gets converted to weird characters(Unicode control characters).
Localization
  • Times are converted local times
  • Units such as currency, weight, distance are converted or highlighted, and allow for right click interactions

See bug #240914. (David Baron said: I expect this will be fixed for Gecko 1.9 (i.e., Firefox 3.0...)

See bug #356184.

General tasks
  • Ability to highlight text/tables in a webpage and then right click and "Export to OpenOffice.org Calc/Writer or Microsoft Excel/Word" depending on users preference and operating system.

Many people I have shown Mozilla Firefox to have missed such a feature as it is in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

  • Improving bidi text editing. Sometimes it crashes in textarea, which is very annoying in wikis (suppose you're writing an article for wikipedia).

bug#315748

Variant button
  • A variant button to show a human friendly variant list, in particular the list of available languages in the server.

The main intention is to use the variant button as a language button.

This could also go to section 3 of this page.

The variant button

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