Re: Fwd: [ xchat-Bugs-956606 ] LANGUAGE=ar xchat bug

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

Who's doing bidi in xchat?

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Munzir Taha wrote:

> To the experts in BiDi and GTK+, please help by suggestions on this bug. It
> seems to be very simple but you decide.
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> Subject: [ xchat-Bugs-956606 ] LANGUAGE=ar xchat bug
> Date: Wednesday 19 May 2004 09:37 am
> From: "SourceForge.net" <noreply at sourceforge dot net>
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> Bugs item #956606, was opened at 2004-05-19 09:51
> Message generated for change (Comment added) made by zed
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> Category: None
> Group: None
> Status: Open
> Resolution: None
> Priority: 5
> Submitted By: Munzir Taha (munzirtaha)
> Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
> Summary: LANGUAGE=ar xchat bug
>
> Initial Comment:
> If the LANGUAGE variable is set to ar (Arabic), the direction
> of the English text typed would be left to right (LTR) which
> would cause readability issues and display problems e.g.
> typing:
>
> /help will aappear as help/
> hi ;) will appear as (; hi
> /join # will appear as # join/
>
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> >Comment By: Peter Zelezny. (zed)
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> Date: 2004-05-19 13:37
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> What do you propose I change though?
> I'd need some help with this (or a patch).
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--behdad
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