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empathy package

  1. Bug #571822
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 571822

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Shlomil (shlomister) wrote : Re: Empathy allign RTL text as LTR text on messenger

This bug sound like an upstream bug and I'll take a "wild" guess and say the fix is probably the same one I did in Pidgin a few years ago:
http://shlomil.blogspot.com/2007/02/patch-to-fix-some-bidi-text-issues-in.html

RL=1 should be passed for RTL messages in MSN protocol.
Wireshark can be used to confirm what flag value is used by Empathy.

Solution: The first letter of the message should be detected for direction and set the flag accordingly (AKA, the Gnome way).