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#20 broken RTL support of Whiptail in VTE-based terminal emulators.
Closed: Invalid by danialbehzadi. Opened by danialbehzadi.

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AFAIK Whiptail has a built-in RTL script support, which is awesome on many environment with no RTL support such as text-based Debian installer or TTYs. But recently VTE added support for RTL languages and now, Whiptail is broken on GNOME Terminal, etc.

This is screenshot of the following command's output:

whiptail --msgbox سلام 10 50

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version is: whiptail (newt): 0.52.21

AFAIK there is no support in newt for RTL. That might be a Debian-specific patch. Can you reproduce the issue with unpatched newt and is there an example showing how it should look like?

You're right. I just checked the version in Fedora, The text alignment is wrong, but it is readable.

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Metadata Update from @danialbehzadi:
- Issue close_status updated to: Invalid
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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