Hi, Yaron Shahrabani <sh.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, you are correct, where can I try the installer after the patch?
There is no image publicly available at the moment, Samuels patch was just a first proposal. Let's see what the maintainers of newt or fribidi think. You will get informed as soon as an image is available for testing. Thanks Holger > On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 5:52 PM Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > > Forwarding this to translators of relevant languages: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to get your attention on this bugreport for the > > debian-installer. > > It looks to me, as if RTL writing direction is no longer correct in the > > text-based installer. > > > > But as I am not a mother-tongue speaker of the affected languages, I would > > like > > to have some opinion/acknoledgement from you regarding this. > > > > The bugreport contains some screenshots, where you can see the text-based > > an > > the graphical installer - side-by-side - for all those languages. > > IMO the graphical installer looks good, while the text-based one - with the > > blue background - is not correct. > > > > > > Note: the screenshot were created with the buster-alpha4 netinst ISO image. > > > > > > > > Many thanks > > Holger > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:15:12 +0100 > > From: Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> > > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > > Subject: Bug#917909: [text-based installer] right-to-left writing > > direction broken > > > > > > Package: debian-installer > > Severity: important > > > > > > While investigating an old bugreport regarding Hebrew, I found that RTL > > writing > > direction is completely broken in the text-based installer > > (writing direction seems left-to-right and text is aligned to the left). > > > > That's also the case in Stretch, while it was ok in Jessie installer! > > > > I will sent some screenshots to the bug later, to document it. > > > > > > As we are near the freeze for Buster, it would probably be the best way to > > work around this, if we disable the RTL langugages completely in the > > text-based > > installer (since they are also supported there and it seems ok in the > > graphical installer) ? > > > > This affects: Arabic > > Hebrew > > Persian > > Uyghur > > > > > > > > I will point relevant people to this bug, to get opinions from > > mother-tongue > > speakers | readers ... > > > > > > > > Holger > > > > > > > > -- > > Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> > > PGP-Finterprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076 > > -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Finterprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
