broken RTL support in VTE-based terminal emulators.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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newt (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
AFAIK Whiptail has a built-in RTL script support, which is awesome on many environment with no RTL support such as text-based Debian installer or TTYs. But recently VTE added support for RTL languages and now, Whiptail is broken on GNOME Terminal, etc.
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I reported this upstream too: https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: whiptail 0.52.21-4ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu70
Architecture: amd64
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CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 18 15:09:03 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-07-13 (97 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=fa_IR
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: newt
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-10-16 (1 days ago)
Found out the problem is in this debian patch for Bidi:
https:/ /git.launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ newt/tree/ debian/ patches/ bidi.patch