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Bug 579278 - The menu arrow is confusing in RTL languages
The menu arrow is confusing in RTL languages
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-doc-utils
Classification: Deprecated
Component: build utils
0.1.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-doc-utils maintainers
gnome-doc-utils maintainers
: 538342 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-04-17 11:46 UTC by Osama Khalid
Modified: 2009-06-03 03:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26



Description Osama Khalid 2009-04-17 11:46:31 UTC
Please describe the problem:
The menu arrow '▸' doesn't look correct in the right-to-left languages. For example, the following code:
<menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add/Remove...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

is shown as:


But in the RTL languages (as they're written from right to left), it's shown like this:
 Add/Remove.... ▸ Applications

Therefore, I strongly suggest changing the right arrow '▸' into the left one '◂' in RTL languages.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Running Yelp as a RTL locale. (for example LANG=ar_EG.UTF-8 LC_ALL=ar_EG.UTF-8 yelp)
2. Gooing to any translated menu name.

Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?
Yes, sure.

Other information:
Comment 1 Don Scorgie 2009-04-27 18:41:47 UTC
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
This is an issue with gnome-doc-utils (which actually generates the HTML we display).  Passing to the correct place.
Comment 2 Don Scorgie 2009-04-27 20:32:36 UTC
*** Bug 538342 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Robert Collins 2009-06-03 00:31:45 UTC
There are plenty of dups of this in the Ubuntu bugtracker - perhaps its worth confirming it here?
Comment 4 Shaun McCance 2009-06-03 03:28:26 UTC
Fixed on master.  Note that the arrow might change to a different Unicode character as a result of bug #582098.  If it does, I'll change the RTL version as well.