[Bf-committers] Arabic interface

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Blender's translation system is a hack at best... partially because the  
original UI code was never designed to become translated. Attempts in  
the past 4 years to support translation have only delivered quite bad  
code, something I rather not see someone building on top of that. (Note  
that in Blender also names you gave to data yourself might get  
translated...)

If we want decent translations and right-to-left printed text in  
Blender, a very big overhaul of core string/button/UI functions has to  
be done. I'd prefer to insist on doing this very good once!

-Ton-


On 23 Nov, 2006, at 21:06, M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:

> 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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