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bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages
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From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
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Subject: |
bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages |
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Date: |
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:26:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <address@hidden> 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.
>>
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> 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’.