[interchange-i18n] Hebrew locale

Stefan Hornburg Racke racke at linuxia.de
Thu Aug 23 23:03:00 UTC 2001


racke at linuxia.de (Stefan Hornburg (Racke)) writes:

> "Chen Naor" <chen at lilux.co.il> writes:
> 
> > Hello List,
> > 
> > I'm an old Minivend user and I decided that is time to move on to
> > interchange.
> > I'm starting to translate the UI to Hebrew (Israel).
> > I added the file he_IL.cfg to the directory.
> > The Normal translation is easy and I can see the Hebrew characters with no
> > problems.
> > But as usual the main issue with Hebrew is that it is written from right to
> > left.
> 
> Thank for your quite helpful suggestion, Chen !
> 
> IMHO the best way to do this:
> Add MV_LANG_DIRECTION=ltr to default.cfg, any "special" locales
> may change this.
> The usertag mm_locale (called by every UI page) 
> will set a scratch variable accordingly and this
> sets the direction in UI_STD_HEAD.

OK, I implemented this and checked it into CVS. 
What browser software one needs to see this actually ?

Ciao
        Racke

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