GNU bug report logs - #35319
Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages

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Package: guix; Severity: important; Reported by: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@HIDDEN>; dated Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:16:01 UTC; Maintainer for guix is bug-guix@HIDDEN.
Severity set to 'important' from 'normal' Request was from Ludovic Courtès <ludo@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.

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"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@HIDDEN> skribis:

> 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 prese=
nt
> upstream, including an API addition "newtCheckboxSetWidth". Please only u=
se
> this within Debian until it is supported upstream.
>
> There is a
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/mckinstry/newt/blob/debian/master/debian/patches=
/bidi.patch

Thanks for researching it.  We may be unable to fix it for 1.0 but we
should definitely address it.

Ludo=E2=80=99.




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On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 05:26:35PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@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.
> >> 
> >
> > 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




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"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@HIDDEN> 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.




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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.

Regards,
Florian




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