From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
Cc: 51183@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51183: lagrange: fribidi and harfbuzz dependencies?
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 22:14:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YWx2C/E22fnx15c9@3900XT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13dbc4b21d83ed3ffad524bd876f952e84696b2a.camel@librehacker.com>
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 07:22:18AM -0800, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi, I like the lagrange gemini client, but I have struggled with some
> font display issues since I do a publishing with mixed English and
> Hebrew words. Lagrange does display Hebrew unicode characters, if you
> switch to the selectable "Tinos" font in the preferences, but on my
> system, the Hebrew script is displayed in the wrong direction (left-to-
> right, instead of right-to-left).
>
> According to the Lagrange github README, Lagrange should be able to
> utilize the fribidi and harfbuzz software to properly display these
> sorts of scripts, but it does not seem to be doing this in Guix, even
> though these packages are available.
>
> I attempted running lagrange inside "guix environment --ad-hoc fribidi
> harfbuzz" but the scripts are still displaying backwards, suggesting
> that something needs to be modified in the package definition itself to
> utilize this software.
>
> Here is a simple gemini test page (contain just a single Hebrew word):
>
> gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/your-word/test.gmi
>
> On my system, it displays the letters as "bet resh alef" from left to
> right, rather than from right to left.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet#Alphabet
>
This is something that I've noticed too for years but never got around
to trying to fix. I actually find that mutt displays Hebrew backwards
for me too, as does translate-shell.
I've updated lagrange from 1.5.2 to 1.7.2 and I didn't see any
improvement in how it displays ברא vs ארב.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-17 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-13 15:22 bug#51183: lagrange: fribidi and harfbuzz dependencies? Christopher Howard
2021-10-13 22:56 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-10-13 23:40 ` Christopher Howard
2021-10-14 6:55 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-10-14 10:39 ` Bengt Richter
2021-10-17 19:14 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2024-11-01 18:41 ` Christopher Howard
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