Re: [Bug 99200] kbabel should provide choice whether to display msgstr RTL or LTR

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <y dot rahal at gmail dot com>]

Salam,

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:54:18 +0300, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj
<aalarfaj at gmail dot com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky at kde dot org>
> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:38:34 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: [Bug 99200] kbabel should provide choice whether to display
> msgstr RTL or LTR
> To: aalarfaj at gmail dot com

> Basically, you mix up two things: formatting and presentation. The buttons in
> text editors are about formatting of a text, while you complain about the
> presentation. Further, the presentation is a problem in Qt.

Hmm... I think the author is right. Having this option will simply change:

EnglishWord1 ArabicWord2 ArabicWord1

to

                                 EnglishWord1 ArabicWord2 ArabicWord1
 
The best would be to have:

                                  ArabicWord2 ArabicWord1 EnglishWord1 

This, I think, can only be done via Unicode control chars. So maybe
the best way would be the ability to insert them easily (in QT, KDE or
KBabel ?). Something that you can obviously do in gtranslator (and if
I'm not mistaken, in all GTK TextEdits via a right click)...

> The only reasonable approach to me is to setup the direction according to the
> currently configured language of a project.

Would probably be a good idea when you have only english text and thus
don't need to change the text direction but only the alignement. But
this should be a preference thing and thus configurable even for an
RTL language.

Salam,

-- 
Youcef R. Rahal