Subject: Re: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 01:00:37 +0200

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]> skribis:

> 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

Thanks for researching it.  We may be unable to fix it for 1.0 but we
should definitely address it.

Ludo’.