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