[Bf-committers] Arabic interface

[Matt Ebb]

On 22/11/2006, at 00:30 AM, M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:

> 2- Arabic language need Bidi mode (Right to left), the default  
> layout of
> blender is Left to right, how we can solve this problem ?

This may be the biggest hurdle, everywhere in Blender just assumes  
left to right. Do you know details on the specifics of how to make  
this work?

i.e. is it enough to just start at the last character of the string  
and draw one character after the other, right to left, until you  
reach the start of the string? Do the Arabic characters work this way  
with each character independent, or do they need special ligatures  
(connected characters as in cursive script)?

 From what I've briefly seen of Arabic, many characters change their  
appearance based on whether they are at the start, middle, or end of  
the word. Is this handled by the input system and encoded in the .po  
file, or does it need to be handled by Blender? Blender currently has  
no functionality like that at all.

cheers,

Matt



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Matt Ebb . matt at mke3.net . http://mke3.net



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