From unknown Thu Jun 12 08:38:47 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages Resent-From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:16:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 35319 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: 35319@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-guix@gnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.15556689123374 (code B ref -1); Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:16:01 +0000 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Apr 2019 10:15:12 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43476 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHQY4-0000sL-60 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 06:15:12 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35513) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHQY2-0000s0-4u for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 06:15:10 -0400 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:46437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHQXw-0001AP-VT for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 06:15:05 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHQXv-0001ac-Vp for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 06:15:04 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50, T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHQOo-00050R-2m for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 06:05:42 -0400 Received: from pelzflorian.de ([5.45.111.108]:54408 helo=mail.pelzflorian.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHQOn-0004zQ-T6 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 06:05:38 -0400 Received: from pelzflorian.localdomain (unknown [5.45.111.108]) by mail.pelzflorian.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D26C8360038 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:05:34 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=pelzflorian.de; s=mail; t=1555668334; bh=7AsfGKXIJZqugJ5oQb0v+E+YoMDTc/T3Bub4J15RvGk=; h=Date:From:To:Subject; b=Hg/L5x/et97/wdA/nNKNqFVbeoHWV5M76xI3iCyc9oX6sq7zBPmg3IvdXjYaolqwH OOjfnJi9dF3PXRvYnsue26lrnUJ8anmYCL3tgzmT/CfXE8rSU6DcWhaXuAgmiNv0GT f6Fgxo4wyhmdZvL3b/12DGCWE8i3W1NClQljpR/4= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:05:34 +0200 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Message-ID: <20190419100534.u264vkx5cwcmkby4@pelzflorian.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 5.45.111.108 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) 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 From unknown Thu Jun 12 08:38:47 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages Resent-From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:27:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35319 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" Cc: 35319@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 35319-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35319.155568760917478 (code B ref 35319); Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:27:02 +0000 Received: (at 35319) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Apr 2019 15:26:49 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44487 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHVPd-0004Xp-AB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:26:49 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55100) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHVPc-0004Xc-3P for 35319@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:26:48 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36286) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHVPV-0005Xe-M2; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:26:41 -0400 Received: from [2001:660:6102:320:e120:2c8f:8909:cdfe] (port=40200 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hHVPQ-0004kk-E4; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:26:40 -0400 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= References: <20190419100534.u264vkx5cwcmkby4@pelzflorian.localdomain> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 30 Germinal an 227 de la =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:26:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20190419100534.u264vkx5cwcmkby4@pelzflorian.localdomain> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:05:34 +0200") Message-ID: <87h8auaudw.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" 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. From unknown Thu Jun 12 08:38:47 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages Resent-From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:12:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35319 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 35319@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 35319-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35319.15556975159855 (code B ref 35319); Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:12:01 +0000 Received: (at 35319) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Apr 2019 18:11:55 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44589 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHXzO-0002Ys-Qt for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:11:55 -0400 Received: from pelzflorian.de ([5.45.111.108]:37780 helo=mail.pelzflorian.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHXzM-0002Yj-37 for 35319@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:11:53 -0400 Received: from pelzflorian.localdomain (unknown [5.45.111.108]) by mail.pelzflorian.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C38C360038; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:11:50 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=pelzflorian.de; s=mail; t=1555697510; bh=iFY2/q+7wM1ci5ACNOiSKnRdZofR5Y/6nJ4CpzpRtXo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=hJumqDnVZhH7cx2HDfolkZuJC1gA5azrCAOHmVQRI7oTspJqbV36Iq8NjGpnsUw5U ZjQwwhTUMsEOMRTQj5GJUqpPkAM1u7EJA8by7320kKL58vCbvKkVu/9kZj+nF46N5a 0Oi/wfeEPPXWL25/zcjkrQ7GrTi1fmllSu9+dWbY= Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:11:49 +0200 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" Message-ID: <20190419181149.xdxscrfz3d2kxi3a@pelzflorian.localdomain> References: <20190419100534.u264vkx5cwcmkby4@pelzflorian.localdomain> <87h8auaudw.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87h8auaudw.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 05:26:35PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" 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 From unknown Thu Jun 12 08:38:47 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#35319: Guix System installer text direction wrong for RTL languages Resent-From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 23:01:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35319 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" Cc: 35319@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 35319-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35319.155571485013018 (code B ref 35319); Fri, 19 Apr 2019 23:01:01 +0000 Received: (at 35319) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Apr 2019 23:00:50 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44910 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHcUz-0003Nu-LI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:00:49 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56015) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHcUx-0003Ng-5S for 35319@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:00:48 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46595) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHcUr-0002Mt-17; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:00:41 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:6a6c:dc17:fc02:cfda] (port=60722 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hHcUq-0004Gz-2L; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:00:40 -0400 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= References: <20190419100534.u264vkx5cwcmkby4@pelzflorian.localdomain> <87h8auaudw.fsf@gnu.org> <20190419181149.xdxscrfz3d2kxi3a@pelzflorian.localdomain> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 1 =?UTF-8?Q?Flor=C3=A9al?= an 227 de la =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 01:00:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20190419181149.xdxscrfz3d2kxi3a@pelzflorian.localdomain> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:11:49 +0200") Message-ID: <878sw5bnxm.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" 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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