This was bounced from project to project and ended up in telepathy-spec at <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30396>.
However, I'm not sure whether this is actually relevant to telepathy- spec, because I don't think the communication between Empathy and its MSN backend should need to specify the text direction if it can be detected automatically. Is it meant to be possible to auto-detect alignment from the text of the message? It seems to be, since if I copy "שרה" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text and send it between my XMPP accounts, the edit box displays it right-aligned (however, the conversation history displays it left-aligned). So, I think there are really three bugs here, of which we can't fix (B): (A) For all protocols, Empathy should auto-detect whether the text should be RTL, and if so, right-align the text in the conversation history (B) (not fixable by us!) MSN on Windows should auto-detect whether the text should be RTL in the same way as (A), rather than relying on the RL=1 flag (C) To work around (B), telepathy-butterfly (which Empathy uses for MSN) should auto-detect whether the text should be RTL, and if so, set the RL=1 flag when it sends it to the MSN server People who speak RTL languages: does that sound like a reasonable course of action? ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #30396 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30396 -- Empathy allign RTL text as LTR text on messenger https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571822 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
