[Bf-committers] How & When could we support right-to-left languages?

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

BTW: I forgot button layouts, if there's a row, should these be  
flipped too? Order of inputs is Z Y X i guess :)

That makes me think if we can just add an evil trick and set the UI  
window matrix with a negative X value. You then only have to fix text  
drawing...

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 15 Sep, 2011, at 19:09, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some pointers for people who like to dive into it:
>
> Issue 1: typing text in buttons
>
> source/blender/editors/interface/interface_handlers.c
> functions called ui_textedit_...
>
> It's all hardcoded to typing L->R now. Selecting, arrow keys same.
>
> Issue 2:
> Are numbers typed reverse too? I guess, but they don't draw reverse
> right?
>
> Issue 3:
> Filepaths... is this reversed?
>
> Issue 4:
> Text drawing in buttons, there's alignment code hardcoded... needs to
> be flippable.
> Same for truncating rules of strings in Blender.
>
> Issue 5:
> Click in text button has very nasty code to detect which character is
> found.
>
> Issue 6:
> Is increment/decrement button clicks the same still? Same for gesture
> (left = lower, right is higher value).
>
> All in all, it'll needs someone with quite some time figuring out our
> UI code. It's unfortunately wrapped old sorta 90ies stuff here still.
> Might be only possible by cleaning and structuring code partially.
>
> -Ton-
>
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>
> On 15 Sep, 2011, at 17:33, xiangquan xiao wrote:
>
>> After congcong made an advertisement about garlic in the blender-
>> nations,
>> more and more volunteers come to contribute to the translation
>> program.
>> However, Hebrew and Persian(Farsi) as well as Arabic are written
>> from right
>> to left. We have disscussed this issue not long ago, but it seems a
>> little more
>> urgent than I ever thought.
>>
>> Is there somebody working for this? Or at least any plan?
>> I'd like to help on this, but I'm totally unfamiliar with these
>> languages,
>> as well as the text rendering process :(
>>
>> Regards!
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