Re: Pango Status Report, 4 Apr 2000

[Moshe Zadka <moshez math huji ac il>]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> I wonder if Window Managers can be made aware of that (maybe a new
> WM hint would be needed to tell that a window is in RTL mode (buttons
> are mirroredand the title right justified); in other words what is still
> missing are widgets that need to be redrawn differently and not only put
> at another palce, when changed to RTL mode)

Speaking from experience, I'm not sure this is a good idea. Win95 had
the Hebrew version mirroring stuff all over the place: it was horrible.
RTL-language speakers are used to certain button locations already:
there's no need to retrain them.

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