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) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]