Re: Comparison between CLDR and POSIX

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> I don't agree. The user's habit of having the "File" menu on the left and
> the "Help" menu on the right, or vice versa, is unrelated to whether the
> quality of the string translations is sufficient for him to set
> LC_MESSAGES=he_IL.

If you want to have an option for having "File" on the right and
"Help" on the left, go for it, but under another name.
Right-to-left layouts are really only specific to right-to-left
scripts.  It's quite confusing to use an RTL layout with LTR
messages and vice versa.


--behdad
http://behdad.org/