Re: Position of "latin" items in lists in RTL-locale contexts

["mousavi arash gmail com" <mousavi arash gmail com>]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:40 AM, Marcus Lundblad <ml update uu se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks for your answer Arash!
> I attached a patch to the aforementioned bug which I think should do
> achieve the goal (embedding each component with the RLM or LRM
> depending on the locale). From some quick testing it kinda looks right
> to me. But it would be great with more testing (I might very well be
> missing something obvious here).

I don't have much experience with compiling gnome's development apps,
but if you could give me some hints I could give some feedback too.


On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> wrote:
> What about just offering the whole expression to translate: "%s → %s".
> Someone should check that the printf syntax ("%2$s ← %1$s") is properly
> handled in JS code.

I think that still won't work unless we force the context to be RTL,
but GTK decides the text direction automatically based on the first
character of the sentence.