doesn't support RTL text in ubuntu theme

[Masoud Abkenar]

Binary package hint: adium-theme-ubuntu

In themes "Blue" or "Clean" there is no problem. But in the theme "ubuntu" (which is the default) the text is rendered incorrectly. There are two problems with it:

* text is displayed from left to right (align: left)
* text is displayed as LTR (direction: left)

The first problem is not as bad as the second one. The second one means that if there is any punctuation marks at the end of the message, it will come at the beginning of the message, instead of end.

To see the problem for yourself, use this simple test, which means "Hello!":

سلام!

Just send it as a message in chat and see how it appears in the window. Compare the case of "ubuntu" theme with the "Clean" or "Blue" theme. In "ubuntu" theme, the exclamation mark comes at the right of the word (incorrect). In the "Clean" or "Blue" themes, the exclamation mark comes at the left of the word (correct).

You know, when the language is right-to-left, it means that the end of the line is the left-most side. So the exclamation mark must come at the left of the sentence.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: adium-theme-ubuntu 0.3.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 13 13:17:31 2011
Dependencies:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: adium-theme-ubuntu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Masoud Abkenar (mabkenar)]

I have attached screen-shots of different themes.

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 538632, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.