Thanks, I will test this out tonight.

I haven't submitted the patch in slang upstream yet, as it is messy for
the reasons you describe. I was going to tidy it up, but this approach
looks better. 

Regards
Alastair

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:41 +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
> Package: newt, slang2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch l10n d-i
> 
> Attached patch implements better bidi text handling in newt applications
> than it is now. It adds such features as proper paragraph alignment and
> paragrap recognition. With te current approach we have all text left
> aligned, but Hebrew or Arabic text should be right aligned. Also
> currently bidi patch is in slang library, so it is not possible to have
> one base direction for full paragraph so we can have one paragraph that
> have different base directions for different lines. New patch fixes
> that.
> 
> To have new patch working you should add it to newt AND REMOVE bidi
> patch from slang2 - they will conflict. Also you should add Recomends:
> libfribidi0; Build-Depends: libfribidi-dev and Conflicts: libslang2
> (versions with bidi patch) to newt's control file.
> 
> Please apply this patch as it allows for better BIDI text handling in
> newt (and in debian-installer) and it makes it possible to do even
> better BIDI support in the future (like control elements alignment).
> 
> Alastair, if you asked slang2's upstream to include bidi patch, please,
> ask them to not do this anymore.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.1
> Locale: LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=uk_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)



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