Right-To-Left (RTL) languages and Wine

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 29/09/10 21:59, James Mckenzie wrote:
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> 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.
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I'm sorry, but you are confusing several issues here. The question is 
not whether to implement BiDi (yes, provided we find the working hands 
to do it) or mirroring (yes, except I don't think we need to bother with 
mirroring the window decoration UI components that Windows does, and I 
have not heard anyone else weight in on this issue lately). The question 
is whether Wine's built in application should set a specific flag to do 
automatic mirroring.

Since Word is not a Wine built in application, what it does is 
irrelevant for this discussion, not because we don't intend to support 
it, but because it is undisputed we do.

Shachar

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