linebender / linebender/runebender
Arabic support for UI text
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- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 799
- Forks
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Description
On macOS with commit a2045c0 I'm not able to get Arabic text strings to render in the UI.

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Research direction
Reproduce the Arabic rendering problem on macOS using commit a2045c0, then trace the UI text rendering path to identify where the strings fail. Done means Arabic UI text renders correctly on macOS; the issue does not name specific files or tests to run.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop, internationalization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100