Comment 1 for bug 887929

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Haggai Eran (haggai-eran) wrote :

Hi,

I couldn't reproduce the problem the way you described it. After changing the the language to Hindi, the LANGUAGE environment variable was set in .profile to "hi:en", and the desktop was left to right.

However, I was able get a right-to-left Hindi desktop by setting LANGUAGE to "hi:he:en". Could you write the value of LANGUAGE in your desktop?

A possible root of this problem would be if that the string QT_LAYOUT_DIRECTION was left untranslated in left-to-right languages, such as English and Hindi. If the translation mechanism picks the first translated version, and Hebrew appears anywhere in the LANGUAGE variable, it could cause the result to be "RTL" telling unity-2d to mirror it's interface.