On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:19 PM, K. K. Subramaniam subbukk@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 06:25:18 pm Korakurider wrote:
The same problem is shared by Pashto and Dari for which we even have translations already but cannot use them :(
even with Pango?
Pango only handles rendering of text. The left-to-right assumptions in laying out items alignment morphs like menu bars, tabs, fields in a form will also be affected. "next" is no longer on the right and "prev" is no longer on the left.
Something like "Name: _______" will become " ________ :emaN" in right-to-left languages.
Oh, I see. Thanks. I also found screenshot of Arabic WinXP, that is interesting. http://blog.way2.jp/system/wordpress/wp-content/2009/02/arabic-windows.jpg
So rewriting of all of UI pieces would be needed...
/Korakurider
Subbu