Bug 27195 – Text should wrap after curly quotes, not before

• Component: Layout and Rendering
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Calibre (http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/) uses Webkit, I'm not sure what version, and it wraps curly quotes (”) to the next line, which looks weird, and not book-like. I'm guessing this is a WebKit bug.  I'm on Linux, though, so I don't know how to test this against a WebKit browser.

[Xianzhu Wang]

Created attachment 71383 [details]
test case

I can't reproduce the bug with the attached test in Linux Chrome 7.0.517.41, Windows Chrome 8.0.552.5, Mac Chrome 7.0.503.0 and Mac Safari 5.0.2. I even can't reproduce in Qt version of WebKit (trunk version).

All the browsers break lines neither before or after the quotation mark (Unicode 201D, RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK).

[Pat]

Using QtWebKit trunk (wk45), this is not reproducible.
The test content is using entity &#201D; and a space between some characters. The word break occurs at the space, not around the curly quote. If all spaces are removed the line doesn't break (one long line). Tried with the test content saved as UTF-8 with and without BOM, also UTF-16Used QtTestBrowser to verify on Symbian and Linux. Both work as expected.

Test content, as provided, used:
<!DOCTYPEhtml>
abcd efg&#x201d;abcd efg&#x201d;abcd efg&#x201d;abcd efg&#x201d;abcd efg&#x201d;abcd efg&#x201d; ....


Note, that test content has no meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16"> 
Tested with meta tag added and works as expected.

The behavior is the same for Firefox, Safari, and QtTestBrowser.
QtTestBrowser: /usr/demos/browser/browser.exe