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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL
	languages
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:26:35 +0200
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To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
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"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> I made changes to the installer so it=E2=80=99s almost ready as far as I=
=E2=80=99m
>> concerned.  It now displays language and territory names in the right
>> language.
>>=20
>
> Language names for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew are shown Left-to-Right (LTR)
> instead of Right-to-Left, e.g. =D8=A7=D9=84=D8=B9=D8=B1=D8=A8=D9=8A=D8=A9=
 is displayed wrongly as =E2=80=AD=D8=A7=D9=84=D8=B9=D8=B1=D8=A8=D9=8A=D8=
=A9=E2=80=AC.

Ouch, good point!  I have no idea what it takes to display RTL languages
properly.  AFAIK =E2=80=98gettext=E2=80=99 simply returns a string, so I gu=
ess it=E2=80=99s up
to the UI toolkit (Newt?) to do the right thing?

Ludo=E2=80=99.