Bug#822083: refcard: The refcard layout is screwed up for RTL languages
Hi Omer,
Thanks for your work.
Omer Zak <w1@zak.co.il> wrote:
> Source: refcard
> Severity: minor
> Tags: upstream patch l10n
>
>
> The Hebrew and Arabic layouts were fixed by the enclosed patch which is based
> upon svn repository version 11118.
>
> 1. Explanations of the changes:
>
> debian/rules
> LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
> Fixes the behavior of 'grep' when it deals with text with non-Latin
> characters.
> Without this change, 'grep' outputs 'Binary file _____ matches', causing
> further operations in the build to fail.
Are there any possible side effects in setting "LC_ALL=en_US.utf8" ?
> fo.xsl
> The layout for RTL languages is fine without writing-mode='rl-tb'.
>
> he.po
> All Hebrew translations were enclosed in RLE/PDF to force RTL as their
> major direction.
> Further fixes were made after proofreading.
>
> ar.po
> All Arabic translations were enclosed in RLE/PDF to force RTL as their
> major direction.
> The file needs to be proofread and more LRE/RLE/PDF characters added at
> various strings.
>
> 2. Two optional files:
>
> po_processor.py
> One-shot script for processing he.po,ar.po and enclosing RTL strings
> in RLE/PDF because this directionality is no longer proviced by the
> templates subjected to fo.xsl.
>
> The script was written to be idempotent, and you may want to consider
> adding it to the build flow, allowing future translators not to manually
> enclose new strings in RLE/PDF.
>
> This script requires that python3 and python3-polib be added to the
> package's build dependencies.
>
> run_po_processor.sh
> Runs the po_processor.py script on ar.po, fa.po (once it exists) and
> he.po.
Maybe some comments on how to use that scripts would be useful?
(how to execute, in which situations, ...)
I'm lacking the skills to value this patch, so could please someone comment
on it?
Holger
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