#233 Support bidirectional text

[Stéphane Aulery]

Reported from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282327

Matthias Urlichs noted that the Arabic language is displayed wrong, but it may be a missing feature. This bug has already been reported in 2003. Here is the text of the report. Is it fixed? Is this a missing feature? I just want to know if you would take it into account or if I can close the source Debian bug.

Thanks for your help.

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Package: xchat
Version: 2.4.0-0.2ubuntu2
Severity: minor

Selecting through a message like this:

<__daniel> "daniel" auf arabisch: دانيل :-)

doesn't properly select bidirectionally and messes up the display.

Gaim does it correctly...

• -- System Information:
  Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (640, 'unstable'), (530, 'experimental')
  Architecture: i386 (i686)
  Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-rc3-1.17
  Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xchat depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-1ubuntu2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18ubuntu2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libglib2.0-0 2.5.6-0ubuntu1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.5.5-0ubuntu2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpango1.0-0 1.6.0b-0ubuntu1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libperl5.8 5.8.4-4 Shared Perl library
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-2 SSL shared libraries
ii libx11-6 6.8.1-1ubuntu2 X Window System protocol client li
ii python2.3 2.3.4-16 An interactive high-level object-o
ii tcl8.4 8.4.7-1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii xchat-common 2.4.0-0.2ubuntu2 Common files for X-Chat
ii xlibs 6.8.1-1ubuntu2 X Window System client libraries m