Right-To-Left (RTL) languages and Wine

[Austin English]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've been in talks with a Hebrew translator for some time now and I'd
>> like to have Wine being able to start doing more RTL stuff.
>>
>> I'm looking for example at http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158
>>
>> If I run an English winmine.exe on an Arabic box (thanks to the
>> testbot) the main window will shows as normal LTR window layout with
>> the menu's left justified as well.
>>
>> So eventhough the locale is set to Arabic it doesn't turn 'everything'
>> into RTL.
>>
>> If we don't change the resource files for the RTL languages, that same
>> logic will give us LTR Wine applications or am I wrong here?
>
> That depends on the situation. In some cases it can be set globally
> through the version resources, in other cases it will have to be set on
> an individual resource basis, or specified directly in the code.
>
> I don't think we are quite ready to enable RTL globally though, it's
> still pretty broken. I'm currently trying to improve it.

Perhaps it's a good candidate for the 1.4 release criteria?

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-Austin