* bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages
@ 2019-04-19 10:05 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-04-19 15:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) @ 2019-04-19 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 35319
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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* bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages
2019-04-19 10:05 bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
@ 2019-04-19 15:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-19 18:11 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2019-04-19 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz); +Cc: 35319
"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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* bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages
2019-04-19 15:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
@ 2019-04-19 18:11 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-04-19 23:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) @ 2019-04-19 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ludovic Courtès; +Cc: 35319
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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* bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages
2019-04-19 18:11 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
@ 2019-04-19 23:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2019-04-19 23:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz); +Cc: 35319
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> 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’.
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