On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Alexandre Julliard <julli...@winehq.org> wrote: > Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.w...@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? -- -Austin