Quote:
|
Originally Posted by andyc The browser handles the text rendering but nothing specific is being done for languages that read right-to-left in the client.
I would like to understand the various issues associated with these languages and how they affect the client. The things that I can think of are date/time/number/currency formatting and different calendar support. We can already format data for many locales but we currently only support the Gregorian calendar. Please let me know what else is required to help support these languages. |
I will speak about Hebrew.
First, it is right to left (I guess that was clear from the title). It influences the way you navigate the fields (first you go to the rightmost field, then to the second rightmost, etc.)
Second, sometimes in Hebrew you use the Hebrew calendar instead of the Gregorian. And, day names are of course different, much in the way you use in Portuguese (first day, second day, etc, but then you have Shabbat, the seventh day).
The characters are different.
Spelling would be of importance.
There may be other issues that I don't think of just now.
Best regards
Abel