From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 35319@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:26:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8auaudw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190419100534.u264vkx5cwcmkby4@pelzflorian.localdomain> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:05:34 +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’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-19 15:33 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 [this message]
2019-04-19 18:11 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-04-19 23:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
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