Sent: Sep 29, 2010 11:25 AM
To: Shachar Shemesh <shachar(a)shemesh.biz>
Cc: Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine(a)gmail.com>om>,
"'wine-devel(a)winehq.org'" <wine-devel(a)winehq.org>
Subject: Re: Right-To-Left (RTL) languages and Wine
Shachar Shemesh <shachar(a)shemesh.biz> writes:
Did I mention that the automatic mirroring is a
broken idea
implemented in a broken way already?
What do you consider broken about it?
Aside from notepad, for which the difference is
very small, and most
people would regard a default LTR control as the correct behavior
anyway, what other applications are you concerned over?
Pretty much all of them. For example, Wordpad has combo boxes in the
toolbars, those won't be RTL without changing the process layout.
Winefile and Regedit have treeviews that would need mirroring, etc.
And Microsoft Office appears different in RTL rather than LTR. I used to work with
someone that had the Arabic version of these programs and it would switch from RTL when
typing in Arabic to LTR when typing in a Latin-based language.
As AJ has stated, there is more to do than just 'mirroring' to get RTL into Wine.
I remember this was quite difficult to get into
as well when I was testing
it (I think I still have Hebrew and Arabic test files for Writer in OpenDocument (.odt)
format.)
James McKenzie