Re: Comparison between CLDR and POSIX

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:36 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I don't know about Qt, but gtk+ does it that way only because it can't
> have it any other way. Since the locale does not provide any information
> about the text direction, the only way it can have it customizable but
> not having it hard-coded for a certain list of locales, is doing it
> through a gettext message of "direction:LTR" which is translated to
> "direction:RTL" in right-to-left locales.
>
> It's just a hack, because it couldn't have been in any of the LC_s. It
> doesn't mean Gtk+ chose LC_MESSAGES for this kind of configuration
> intentionally.


Thanks for the clarification, but I'm really more intersted in
knowing your opinion on the issue instead.  Do you think an rtl
layout with English messages makes sense at all?



> roozbeh

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