Alexandre Julliard <julli...@winehq.org> wrote: >Sent: Sep 29, 2010 11:25 AM >To: Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> >Cc: Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.w...@gmail.com>, "'wine-devel@winehq.org'" ><wine-devel@winehq.org> >Subject: Re: Right-To-Left (RTL) languages and Wine > >Shachar Shemesh <shac...@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 OpenOffice.org 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
