[Bug 325324] Re: RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 263822 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263822 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 263822 Arabic support in terminal (BiDi) -- RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325324 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 325324] Re: RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal
Lets rewind. What is the problem here ? We are talking about an application which does not support RTL languages called VTE. And you're trying to workaround it by removing your work! Since the terminal does not support those languages, it just has to really do so and say 'I do not support this locale, falling back to standard locale "C"' We could add a kind a 'locales blacklist' and fallback to the standard 'C' in case the current locale is part of this list. I agree it won't fix the problem, but at least we'll have readable english instead of unreadable localized text. PROS: - do it once use it everywhere (or once per terminal application) - You don't have to remove the translations and localized text is available for all the other applications. This way GUI apps calling a CLI app will be fully translated (see bug 251705 where the GUI is partly in english due to some excluded translations from dpkg) - Relatively easy to do. CONS: - GUI executed from CLI will also be English. - That won't fix the output of commands issued from the terminal e.g the output of 'ls' with filenames in an RTL language, the filenames will be mirrored. What's your opinion? Is it worth trying to write a patch ? -- RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325324 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 325324] Re: RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal
I would like to point out another RTL/Hebrew related bug I suggest the Arab/Persian followers to look at it as well: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/251705 Kind regards, Yaron Shahrabani -- RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325324 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 325324] Re: RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal
** Package changed: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) => vte (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) ** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325324 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 325324] Re: RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal
** Tags added: bounty ** Description changed: This problem is a known problem with Hebrew and there has been many attempts in the past to fix it and most of them were complete failures My guess is that this is a kernel related bug All CLI apps suffer from this problem in Ubuntu (And Debian and all other ditros) I recommend cancelling the LC_MESSAGES=he_IL.UTF-8 for CLI apps while using the Hebrew locale Maybe creating some sort of a environmental variable which only affects CLI apps This is a very annoying bug causing a lot of frustration for the Hebrew Ubuntu users worldwide and also other distros One of the many attempts that were made are the fribidi package but the rendering is not perfect and each program contains a rendering engine of their own, this way there is a double fix and the text is flipped twice and then the problem reoccurs My suggestion to remove using an environmental variable which is only CLI related is the best method I could think of... Best Regards, Yaron Shahrabani + + There's a bounty on this bug at: + http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p189 -- RTL languages displayed incorrectly in terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/325324 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
