Re: Right-to-left Gnome

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> There is/was a document somewhere on the internet describing all the
> things needed for a real arabized system, far beyond the mere ability
> to just be able to display bidi text.
> 
> I've however forgot the title name of such document and so can't find 
> it again.

I guess something like that was on Microsoft website at:

	http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/

Unfortunately I could not find that now, but some good examples are hidden 
there.

> there may be some exceptions, for example the input field for url addresses
> of a web browser should be better in ltr by default; that however should
> be investigated trough experience, as until now no complete rtl-supporting
> system has ever been used on a large scale, or has it ?

Perhaps only Arabic Microsoft Windows.

roozbeh