Re: [Debconf-discuss] Languages Skill Exchange
On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 10:06 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:00:21PM +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> > On 26/07/2011 14:58, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> > > Is there anyone interested in a Language Skill Exchange? This time
> > > "language" doesn't range over C, C++, Haskell and Ruby, but over
> > > Italian, French, German and Bosnian.
> > Just for the record, gobby-0.5 didn't pass the UTF-8 stress test:
> > selection a text in Arabic made the gobby-0.5 of a quite a few of us
> > crash badly (this could be connected with the fact that Arabic was the
> > only right-to-left language we had). This was reproduced more than once,
> > but we didn't try to debug it.
>
> Were you in the meeting room? There have been crashes observed there
> because of a (more or less rogue) AP with different network latency
> conditions. (That's might be the first crash Sami observed.)
>
> Sami wrote:
> > The first time we all got an assertion failure when one of us tried to
> > select some Arabic text I believe:
>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > ERROR:inf-text-gtk-view.c:1157:inf_text_gtk_view_expose_event_after_cb: assertion failed: (prev_toggle->x < cur_toggle->x)
> > Aborted
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'd appreciate if you could test it on gobby.0x539.de from home,
> because I don't know any Arabic or Hebrew.
Right, this is a known problem with RTL languages. You *might* be able
to work around it if you disable "Show cursors of remote users", "Show
selections of remote users" and maybe "Highlight current line of remote
users" in Gobby's preferences.
Armin
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