Re: Arabic debconf dialogs

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Ossama Khayat, le Tue 27 Jul 2010 05:02:48 -0700, a écrit :
> Thank you for sharing this. From what I can see, this is a normal problem we 
> usually face when combining Arabic/Latin text.
> I usually fix this in HTML using a SPAN or DIV with DIR="LTR" for the Latin 
> text.
> 
> Not sure if we could use a Unicode control character to do this for D-I 
> messages.
> 
> Any ideas?

Yes, it seems to be working:

whiptail --yesno 'يجب إدخال معلومات البروكسي بالشكل ‪"http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/"‬;.' 10 50

The attached patch should fix the http bug. The dev bug is hurd-only and
due to missing support in partman-base.

Samuel

Index: sublevel1/ar.po
===================================================================
--- sublevel1/ar.po	(révision 64090)
+++ sublevel1/ar.po	(copie de travail)
@@ -2451,7 +2451,7 @@
 "The proxy information should be given in the standard form of \"http://";
 "[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/\"."
 msgstr ""
-"يجب إدخال معلومات البروكسي بالشكل \"http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/\".";
+"يجب إدخال معلومات البروكسي بالشكل ‪\"http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/\"‬.";
 
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