Language based scanning
Hi, Is there is a way to figure out the occurance of Arabic chars so the label's alignment would be set accordingly (right to left)? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Language based scanning
You probably do not want to approach things this way. Arabic is bidirectional and you may have situations where you have a mixture of languages. What you should look at instead is to just localize your app to Arabic. In the Arabic version of your nibs, make the necessary adjustments. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 13, 2009, at 6:16 AM, Nz Gmail nassers...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there is a way to figure out the occurance of Arabic chars so the label's alignment would be set accordingly (right to left)? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rsharp%40mac.com This email sent to rsh...@mac.com ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Language based scanning
Language based scanning To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Message-ID: 21331617-f39c-4f3b-8f4b-795be101a...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Hi, Is there is a way to figure out the occurance of Arabic chars so the label's alignment would be set accordingly (right to left)? Part of the localization process in Cocoa is to create your localized nib/xib files. This includes adjusting interface elements and layout accordingly so that it makes sense for different languages/cultures. Even some ready-made interface elements don't think left-to-right... so you may want to customize things appropriately. It all depends on how seriously you take given locale as a market for an app. As much as people sometimes think they want easy, scriptable, automated localization of the UI, it just doesn't work that way. You SHOULD hand-tool the UI for all locales. Do it like you're building something for your own children. When your users don't have to think, and even better, when they say to themselves, oh!? That's clever, subtle, thoughtful! then you have done a wonderful job. In the words of Apple: Surprise and Delight. This is the Mac OS, and the user experience is paramount unless it is a command line tool... (but even then...) ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Language based scanning
On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:35 AM, John Joyce wrote: Part of the localization process in Cocoa is to create your localized nib/xib files. This includes adjusting interface elements and layout accordingly so that it makes sense for different languages/cultures. Even some ready-made interface elements don't think left-to-right... so you may want to customize things appropriately. By default, controls use the 'natural' text direction of the system locale. That means left-to-right in most languages, but right-to-left in Arabic / Hebrew / Urdu. So I believe that if you leave the direction alone, it will do the right thing. —Jens___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
