Description of problem: Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Urdu needs BiDi support to work probably. there was a batch that have been made to support BiDi in Icewm and it has been tested on Ojuba (a fedora based distribution) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: try to open Arabic web page using Icewm and look into the title bar. the same applies for programs with Arabic title. or any Arabic text that displays in the windows or the menus of the window manager. Steps to Reproduce: 1.open your browser 2.go to this site http://www.ojuba.org/wiki/ 3.look at the title bar. Actual results: you will find the Arabic word (أعجوبة) revised and it's letters seperated. Expected results: the Arabic text should be displayed probably. Additional info: there is a batch and more info here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1440618&group_id=31&atid=300031
Sorry for the late reply - I bugzilla email somehow laded in the wrong folder. The patch itself is for 1.3.2, but I had no problem back porting it to 1.2.37. A fix will land shortly. - Gilboa
icewm-1.2.37-5.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.2.37-5.fc11
icewm-1.2.37-5.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icewm-1.2.37-5.fc10
P.S. Seems to be working just fine in Hebrew. Please check Arabic web-sites.
icewm-1.2.37-5.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update icewm'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-10020
icewm-1.2.37-5.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update icewm'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-10030
icewm-1.2.37-5.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
icewm-1.2.37-5.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.