[Fedora-trans-ar] Re: Arabic issue #1: QSpinBox doen't work properly with Arabic locale

[Munzir Taha]

Hi Cuters',
Hi Lars,

Previously I have filed around 35 bugs regarding Arabic/BiDi support in Qt. 
Some of them have thankfully been fixed completely or partially but many are 
not. I understand that Cuters' can't afford the resources to comment every 
time they fixed a bug but I am also afraid some would skip them 
unintentionally. I could go through the unfixed ones one by one if this won't 
be considered redundancy and a pollution to the list. Or I could save this 
time to file more bugs ;).

For example Arabic issue #1...

Qt 4.0.0-rc1-snapshot-20050417
Mandriva release 10.2 (Beta 1)  10.1 2.6.10-1mdk i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 
Processor 3200+ GNU/Linux


> On Yaum al-Arbi'a 29 Thu al-Hijjah 1425 12:16 pm, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > > > LC_ALL=ar_SA.UTF-8
> > > > shows broken glyphs of Sunday (in Arabic) though it's Tuesday today
> > > > as my $ date command shows!
> >
> > I can reproduce this. We'll look into fixing it.

Still the date is corrupted. It appears as:

الأحد %.1d Apr 2005
The odd thing here is that % and the 'd'

The time is also messes. It appears as
%.1H:08:21

I think this could be a problem in the SA locale (not related to Qt) since
LC_ALL=ar_EG.UTF-8 ./spinboxes displays properly

but I am not sure since
# LC_ALL=ar_SA.UTF-8 date
Mon Apr 18 12:37:50 AST 2005
which shows no problem here!

So I get lost. Hope those hints would help to resolve it.

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