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Summary:ASTERISK-26473: menuselect: GTK frontend messed up on a right-to-left locale
Reporter:Tzafrir Cohen (tzafrir)Labels:
Date Opened:2016-10-16 21:17:48Date Closed:
Priority:MinorRegression?
Status:Waiting for Feedback/In ProgressComponents:
Versions:11.23.1 13.11.2 14.0.2 Frequency of
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Description:GTK supports locales that have a major right-to-left directionality (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi and such). When such a locale is installed as is in effect (see below) the layout of gmenuselect is quite messed up. usable, but not easy to understand.

workarounds: The directionality of a GTK application is set from the LC_MESSAGES component of the locale. Hence, depending on your LANG/LC_*/LC_ALL/LANGUAGES (see the output of locale) you can override it with either:

{code}
LANG=C            make gmenuselect
LC_LOCALE=C make gmenuselect
LC_ALL=C        make gmenuselect
{code}
Comments:By: Asterisk Team (asteriskteam) 2016-10-16 21:17:48.665-0500

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By: Joshua C. Colp (jcolp) 2017-12-20 06:21:57.382-0600

Are you actively doing anything on this?
By: Kevin Harwell (kharwell) 2018-07-11 13:59:19.744-0500

[~tzafrir] Were you thinking of submitting a patch for this?
By: Kevin Harwell (kharwell) 2018-07-11 14:04:08.577-0500

If not (going to submit a patch) can you describe more the process to replicate this problem and maybe show some sample output of the problem (screenshot maybe)? For instance, based on your description I installed the Hebrew locale on my system and then compiled using:
{noformat}
LC_ALL==he_IL.utf8 make gmenuselect
{noformat}
Is that all that is required?