GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 272237
Hebrew RTL text starts in the middle of the line
Last modified: 2014-12-02 01:06:37 UTC
Description of Problem: When writing Hebrew plain text email, the text starts in the middle of the line and not at the right edge of the composing window. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Start a new, plain text window (make sure that the window is wide) 2. Start writing in Hebrew 3. Notice the location of the text begining in the Window Actual Results: The RTL text starts mid-window Expected Results: Should be next to the right window side How often does this happen? always Additional Information:
Also, when starting to write the Hebrew text, I get these two assertions in the console: (evolution-2.2:30506): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_weak_unref: couldn't find weak ref 0x4152fef0(0x87dacf0) ** (evolution-2.2:30506): CRITICAL **: html_a11y_text_get_text: assertion `end_offset <= to->text_len' failed
Created attachment 44755 [details] screen shot- notice the text location relative to the window
strange- after sending, evo displays the incomming message with the same strange gap. attaching screen-shot.
Created attachment 44756 [details] screen shot of the email after being sent
adding i18n keyword
shoshannah, do you still see this in 2.4.0? thanks in advance...
Sorry for the late reply- Yes, I see this with 2.4.1 (on Ubuntu PPC)- again, this is for plain email text only.
targetting to 2.4.x with the new, fresh and greasy(TM) 2.4.x target milestone provided by harish. ;-)
also see bug 311995, bug 314988, bug 325950, bug 272237. duplicate triagers please go ahead. ;-)
** (evolution-2.2:30506): CRITICAL **: html_a11y_text_get_text: assertion `end_offset <= to->text_len' failed is bug 327169 and will be fixed in evolution 2.8.
Bug 314988 was just closed - anybody on here who still has the problem?
I still see the glib warning about the weak ref, but no visible problems. Maybe someone actually using rtl languages need to confirm this though.
Removing the old milestone.
A user on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gtkhtml3.8/+bug/4977/comments/8 says: """ solved problem: 1.the problem with gtkhtml seems to be mostly solved. there's no longer complete mix up of the sentence. remaining evolution problems: ... (list of other evolution problems. """ I think it's safe to close the bug and wait for more detailed and up-to-date bugs.
This bug was never about mix up of sentences, so I don't see why that being solved affects this. Anyway, I don't have an updated linux here- hopefully I'll have one next week, and then I'll be able to update if this bug is still there or not.
Since version 3.6, Evolution uses WebKit instead of GtkHtml for displaying messages. (And for completeness, Evolution 3.14 is planned to use WebKit also for composing and editing messages so GtkHtml will not receive any fixes anymore.) Hence I am closing this GtkHtml rendering bug report. We are sorry that your request was not handled in time when it was reported but unfortunately manpower is very limited (and does not allow testing every single reported issue separately again either). Please feel free to reopen this report (and move it to the "Evolution" product and the "Mail" component) if the problem described in this bug report still happens in a recent supported Evolution version which uses WebKit (the current stable Evolution version is 3.12).