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#1 Updated by intrigeri 2018-08-04 15:24:40

• Assignee changed from intrigeri to goupille
• QA Check set to Info Needed

> Apparently, using thunderbird in a language that requiers writing from right to left causes problems

Such as?

(Ideally: link to upstream bug reports. Worst case, sufficient info to reproduce and report upstream.)

#2 Updated by goupille 2018-08-06 17:01:50

• Assignee changed from goupille to intrigeri

if I understood correctly, the main issue is that the message body is still centered to the left when using a right to left locale.

there are a lot of people complaining about that for years and that add-on is regularly mentioned as the only solution.

I found several very old tickets about that :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96057
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119857

I also resent you the original report.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2018-08-07 07:17:44

• Subject changed from right to left writing in thunderbird to Improve right to left support in Thunderbird
• Category set to Internationalization
• Status changed from New to Confirmed
• Assignee changed from intrigeri to goupille
• QA Check deleted (Info Needed)
• Affected tool set to Email Client

I took a look:

• the add-on is actively maintained upstream; for example, support for Thunderbird 60 is WIP and some issues are left to be fixed, so I don’t think we can install this add-on yet
• the add-on is in Debian, somewhat maintained but not super actively

So I think we should advice users who needs this to install icedove-bidiui via Additional Software Packages for now (please do so), and then let’s come back to it once Thunderbird 60 support is completed upstream.

#4 Updated by goupille 2018-08-07 17:48:53

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intrigeri wrote:

> So I think we should advice users who needs this to install icedove-bidiui via Additional Software Packages for now (please do so), and then let’s come back to it once Thunderbird 60 support is completed upstream.

ok, done.

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2019-04-07 09:14:28

• related to Feature #15807: Define & apply clear criteria for including dictionaries, fonts and language packs added

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2020-03-09 18:32:35

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• Type of work changed from Research to Debian

intrigeri wrote:
> let’s come back to it once Thunderbird 60 support is completed upstream.

Upstream supposedly supports Thunderbird 68 but the package was not updated in Debian since 1.5 years.