TD cell not stretching to accomodate content (Moz 1.8a4)

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Alan J. Flavell wrote:

The Unicode line breaking rules are a real mess, and browsers mostly
implement them cluelessly and inconsistently.

If you think that's bad, you should see what happens when mixed
rtl and ltr content gets line-broken ;-}

And put some non-spacing marks in. ;-)

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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Alan J. Flavell wrote:

The Unicode line breaking rules are a real mess, and browsers mostly
implement them cluelessly and inconsistently.

If you think that's bad, you should see what happens when mixed
rtl and ltr content gets line-broken ;-}

Test case:
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nht...temp/wrap.html
with Mozilla 1.7.
When I make the window narrow enough, the second paragraph wraps,
but the first doesn't. I'd expect both paragraphs not to wrap
since I've   after and before the parentheses.
And why do the two paragraphs behave differently as the only
difference is <span></span> in the second?

--
Mars, unlike Earth, has no atmosphere.
The Chicago manual of style, 15th ed., p. 362