Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages

> 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.

>

> 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.

> "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?

>

> 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