app names strings in foreign language that is RTL are reversed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Slingshot |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I upgraded Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04, and then installed elementary-desktop from the oneiric ppa. I choose pantheon in the startup screen.
After launch I clicked the 'Apps' link and Slingshot showed up.
In the attached screenshot you can see the result. Some app names are in English, and they are shown correctly. Some app names are in Hebrew - but they are shown reversed. Hebrew is an RTL language which means the words are written from right to left. Howeverr, the Hebrew app names in the screenshot are printed left to right - that means they are reversed.
Imagine you would write the word "elementary" reversed it would look like that: "yratnemele" - that's how the Hebrew words show up.
I guess the same issue would happen with any other RTL language such as Arabic.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: slingshot (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 16 23:33:41 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: slingshot
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-16 (0 days ago)
tags: | added: i18n l10n |
tags: | added: hebrew |
Forgot to mention that the strings in the header (the app categories) are not reversed and are showing RTL correctly. The issue is only with the app name strings.