RTL is printed in reverse
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Terminal |
New
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Unknown
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gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
Dear friends,
Sentences which are supposed to be printed in right-to-left order in the terminal like Hebrew, Farsi and Arabic are printed left-to-right.
I think that this makes the terminal unusable for RTL language users and I think that it gives a very unprofessional impression to the system. It even reminds me of the days when the WWW began to be widely adopted in Israel and Hebrew pages in reverse were a common problem which people to mess around with a lot to get working.
Can there be a simple fix for this, or does this need more serious rewriting of code?
In any case, as impossible to fix as it might seem, I think that this bug deserves to be confirmed and stay open until it is resolved or worked around one way or another.
BTW, I know that this isn't specific to gnome-terminal. I think that this happens in a deeper level so please change it properly.
Many blessings.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-terminal 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
Changed in gnome-terminal: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
This bug seems totally unrelated to https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 390591 (which is about an architecture/build problem in f-spot/mono and has nothing to do with text rendering).
Should the duplicate status be removed?