Bug#313283: [INTL:he] apt: please remove the Hebrew translation
Quoting Lior Kaplan (webmaster@guides.co.il):
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.28.6
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: l10n
>
> I'd like to remove apt's Hebrew translations. The reason is that
> there is no RTL support in the console, so people with Hebrew locale
> just see the messages in reverse order (for Hebrew text hello is seen as
> olleh).
>
> Because of that, the translation is small - 81 strings.
As I already mentioned to Lior in a private message, I think that the
Hebrew translations should be kept:
-first, there may be some RTL console system in the future (have you
once tried bicon from the Arabeyes people...it's not packaged but
should be easy to compile)
-second, if APT (or dpkg, or aptitude...) is used in a RTL-aware
terminal in X, the display should be correct. If it is not, the bug
should be fixed....
Better support for RTL languages is one of the keeys of a good
i18n. We just shouldn't give up translations because programs are
flawed...
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