backward Hebrew letters at language select

[Justin]

At the starting prompt to "Try Kubuntu without any change to your computer"/ "Install Kubuntu" etc. - in the F2 language options, the word for the Hebrew language option appears as gibberish since the letters are all back to front.

The problem is that: Hebrew reads right-to-left instead of left-to-right.

The Hebrew letters currently read (as looking from left-to-right) Ayin-Vet-Resh-Yod-Tav; but since Hebrew reads from right-to-left this makes out something sounding something like "tirvi".

The letters should appear (as looking from left-to-right) Tav-Yod-Resh-Vet-Ayin - which, correctly being read from right-to-left, would spell out the Hebrew word for Hebrew "ivrit".

The attachment (if you want to see what I mean) is from the screen shot of Kubuntu 8.04 Alpha KDE4 (http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.php?linux_distribution_sm=Kubuntu%208.04%20Alpha%20KDE4)

[Alex Shtof (ist-alex)]

Confirmed also on ubuntu hardy beta

[Amos Shapira (amos-shapira)]

Confirmed also on ubuntu hardy rc i386.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 212491 (unfortunately worked around by displaying the English name for now, in lieu of having better font-displaying technology at that stage, though the bug remains open).