GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 579278
The menu arrow is confusing in RTL languages
Last modified: 2009-06-03 03:28:26 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:
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.
*** Bug 538342 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There are plenty of dups of this in the Ubuntu bugtracker - perhaps its worth confirming it here?
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.