[openbeos] Re: Messages Translation ?
- From: "Matt Verran" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 01:38:33 BST (+0100)
hehehe, excellent, provoked a good intellectual response!
I'd agree with your points here, OBOS crew, how do we deal with this?
Regards,
Matt
>
> Well, perhaps each language should have "orientation" and
> "direction" options associated with it, and a base unicode font.
>
> As far as I know, there are only three orientations used:
>
> left->right (eg most indo-european languages, mod. japanese)
> right->left (most semitic languages)
> top->bottom (mod. japanese, chinese, some forms of devenagri?)
>
> Three directions are used (this is the direction the "carriage
> return" sends the newline).
>
> Horizontal orientations always produce top->bottom.
> Vertically-oriented languages produce:
>
> right->left (modern japanese)
> left->right
>
> Book right->left cover/left->right cover then, depend on the
> orientation
> for horizontal languages, and the direction for vertical languages.
>
> languages can have multiple orientation/direction options. In
> japanese,
> literature and social sciences are produced vertically while
> physical sciences and mathematics tend to the more western, left->
> right
> orientation.
>
> Menu bars are all ready for horizontal orientation choices -- it
> would
> suffice to just make, for example, hebrew menu choices go reverse,
> and
> right-justified. There maybe should be an option for vertical menu
> writing (they certainly exist in windows - just click the start bar),
> this
> would maybe help out some vertically-oriented languages, though
> detecting
> the language option and implementing a vertical menu would still be
> the
> purview of the programmer.
>
> do we want to include a provision for boustrophedonic writing (a la
> easter
> island, or the infamous florida punch-cards?)
>
> Isaac
>
>
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