Webkit doesn't automatically right-align Adlam

[r12a]

Adlam text displayed in a block element with dir set to auto should be automatically right-aligned, unless the base direction is set to LTR, like this:

The GAP

In WebKit the text appears as follows:

This is a serious issue, and indicates that first-strong heuristics are not being applied. Note that this was not an issue for N'Ko, Arabic, Hebrew, Thaana, or Syriac text.

Tests & results

Interactive test, Text in languages that use RTL scripts will be automatically aligned with the right side of their container when dir is set to auto

• Gecko: ✅ Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0
• Blink: ✅ Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36
• Webkit: ✅ Adlam used to be broken, but is now fixed (see the bug report). Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.2 Safari/605.1.15

Action taken

Webkit

Outcomes

This was fixed in WebKit, so it now works as expected for all 3 major browser engines.

Priority

Priority initially set to basic because this was a serious issue for Adlam users, but now set to OK.

[r12a]

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Relevant gap analysis documents include: _Adlam_

[xfq]

Browser bug raised: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220885