[Bf-committers] Arabic interface

[M. Bashir Al-Noimi]

Matt Ebb wrote:

> 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?
This is Visual C++ documentation display how you can appear the 
characters in Bidi mode (Right To Left)
http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/search/Redirect.aspx?title=SetLayout&url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gdi/devcons_5upg.asp

>
> 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?
no ... it's not enough
> 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.
yes ... Arabic has special situation its need to 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.
>
only it needed for Blender, po format accept Arabic characters without 
any problem, we've translated whole KDE suit without any problems (see: 
http://arabeyes.org/)

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