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to "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>:
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(Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:16:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:05:34 +0200
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I made changes to the installer so it’s almost ready as far as I’m
> concerned. It now displays language and territory names in the right
> language.
>
Language names for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew are shown Left-to-Right (LTR)
instead of Right-to-Left, e.g. العربية is displayed wrongly as العربية.
Regards,
Florian
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(Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:27:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
To: "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 35319@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL
languages
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:26:35 +0200
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I made changes to the installer so it’s almost ready as far as I’m
>> concerned. It now displays language and territory names in the right
>> language.
>>
>
> Language names for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew are shown Left-to-Right (LTR)
> instead of Right-to-Left, e.g. العربية is displayed wrongly as العربية.
Ouch, good point! I have no idea what it takes to display RTL languages
properly. AFAIK ‘gettext’ simply returns a string, so I guess it’s up
to the UI toolkit (Newt?) to do the right thing?
Ludo’.
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(Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:12:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL
languages
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:11:49 +0200
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 05:26:35PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> I made changes to the installer so it’s almost ready as far as I’m
> >> concerned. It now displays language and territory names in the right
> >> language.
> >>
> >
> > Language names for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew are shown Left-to-Right (LTR)
> > instead of Right-to-Left, e.g. العربية is displayed wrongly as العربية.
>
> Ouch, good point! I have no idea what it takes to display RTL languages
> properly. AFAIK ‘gettext’ simply returns a string, so I guess it’s up
> to the UI toolkit (Newt?) to do the right thing?
>
Debian has a similar bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917909
The
https://salsa.debian.org/mckinstry/newt/blob/debian/master/debian/README.Debian
says:
Debian's version of newt include Bidirectional text support not yet present
upstream, including an API addition "newtCheckboxSetWidth". Please only use
this within Debian until it is supported upstream.
There is a
https://salsa.debian.org/mckinstry/newt/blob/debian/master/debian/patches/bidi.patch
However, I do not know how to use this.
Regards,
Florian
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