adding underscore to words

[Jwtiyar ali]

thank you colin for great explanation, yes we already added default:RTL to
this string,
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/gtk+3.0/+pots/gtk-3.0/ckb/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=default%3ARTL


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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 8:16 PM Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 05:09:18PM +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> > On 2020-03-28 06:44, Jwtiyar ali wrote:
> > > The interface of ubuntu with new kurdish(sorani) language is LTR not
> > > RTL, what we can do to make it RTL?
> >
> > I don't know off hand.
> >
> > According to this page it's RTL:
> > https://translations.launchpad.net/+languages/ckb
>
> FWIW, I'm reasonably sure that the only thing affected by Launchpad's
> direction setting for a language is how various bits of the Launchpad
> web UI itself are displayed.  The translations themselves are basically
> just Unicode text (or packed versions of that) and it's up to clients to
> display them appropriately.
>
> > And when I try e.g. Arabic, RTL is enabled automatically.
> >
> > Possibly it has something to do with GTK and the fact that the ckb_IQ
> locale
> > has not yet been released upstream (the latest glibc release is 2.31
> while
> > the ckb_IQ locale will be widely spread in the Linux community only with
> > glibc 2.32). So I'm thinking that GTK may not yet recognize ckb as a
> > language where RTL applies.
> >
> > Colin, do you possibly have an idea what more there is into it?
>
> There's a string in GTK whose msgid is "default:LTR", and you're
> supposed to set its msgstr to either "default:LTR" if your language is
> left-to-right or "default:RTL" if your language is right-to-left.  Check
> that that string is translated correctly for ckb.
>
> Beyond that, I'm not really an expert on things at this level; I
> wouldn't be surprised to find other similar bits and pieces that need to
> be adjusted for RTL languages.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
>
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