Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages

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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote on 19 Apr 2019 12:05
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Toggle quote (5 lines)> 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.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 19 Apr 2019 17:26
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"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
Toggle quote (9 lines)> 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 languagesproperly. AFAIK ‘gettext’ simply returns a string, so I guess it’s upto the UI toolkit (Newt?) to do the right thing?
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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote on 19 Apr 2019 20:11
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 05:26:35PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Toggle quote (16 lines)> "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?>
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 presentupstream, including an API addition "newtCheckboxSetWidth". Please only usethis 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.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 20 Apr 2019 01:00
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"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
Toggle quote (14 lines)> 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
Thanks for researching it. We may be unable to fix it for 1.0 but weshould definitely address it.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 9 Apr 2020 09:38
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