From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 35319@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:11:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190419181149.xdxscrfz3d2kxi3a@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8auaudw.fsf@gnu.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-19 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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) [this message]
2019-04-19 23:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
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