Re: Comparison between CLDR and POSIX

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> > > have a right-to-left GUI but English for all the rest.
> >
> > Well, I won't code extra for such users. If he wants such a feature, he
> > should customize his locale information instead and change its character
> > direction to right-to-left.
>
> OK. This is acceptable. So let's put the writing direction under LC_CTYPE,
> this avoids creating a new environment variable.

Hummm,.  I'll go for LC_MESSAGES.  The layout direction should
follow the gui messages after all.  That's how it's handled in Qt
and Gtk+ these days.

> Bruno

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