Bug#994092: gkbd-capplet: keyboard layout display garbled for Hebrew layouts

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: retitle 994092 gkbd-capplet: keyboard layout display garbled for RTL (e.g., Hebrew and Arabic) layouts
Control: forwarded 994092 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnomekbd/-/issues/8
Control: tags 994092 + patch

On Sat 2021-09-11 16:01:58 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> I have added Hebrew keyboard layouts and then tried to see the layout
> via gkbd-keyboard-display. For Hebrew layouts - I tried 'Hebrew' and
> 'Hebrew (Bibilical)', the display is a bit garbled, showing dotted
> circles instead of the glyphs, although I have installed every font
> containing Hebrew that I could find, using 'apt'. Using the Hebrew
> script in eg. LibreOffice Writer is perfectly possible, it's just this
> program that does not tell me what the keyboard layout actually is.

I ran into the same problem with Arabic layouts.  I reported it upstream
at the URL above, and the attached patch (also forwarded upstream at
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnomekbd/-/merge_requests/9) solves
the problem.

        --dkg

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