On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:06:50 +0200 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@partner.samsung.com> said:
> On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 12:25 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:47:37 +0200 Tom Hacohen > > <tom.haco...@partner.samsung.com> said: > > > > ok. the below just covers per app prefs. but as such a native arabic > > speaker or hebrew speaker for whom english and other LTR langs are highly > > foreign/unknown, wouldn't they want everything RTL? sure - we can be > > exceptions- nitpickers who speak several languages and want some mixed up > > locale setup. sure. but in a proper RTL setting wouldn't one expect > > everything to be RTL? (except when displaying LTR text - eg in an email or > > document etc.). we can always set LC_* per app being run (e17 actually > > can't/doesn't at the moment - but it's something i'd like to have some day > > - right click on an app icon and select "run this in lang X instead of the > > default" - but thats a separate matter to RTL/LTR support in edje, evas and > > elementary). > > Yes, people who don't speak English at all, or speak very poor English > would in fact like to have a complete rtl interface, but, they too would > prefer having an untranslated application still be ltr. So in general, > the translation should choose, there's no escaping that. > > As you said, textblock has nothing to do with it, because text is > different, since it's mixed. sure. for now i think we'd assume there is some kind of gettext goodness layer that checks LC_* and checks if a translation exists and if it doesn't refuses to change to RTL mode (of target translation is an RTL one). well if the .po's have the RTL vs LTR mode in them then this will just nicely percolate through. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
