Re: Question concerning to locale direction detection

I sent an update for Hebrew translation to Chris (aka cjl);  What I
am interested in, by writing down at this list, is to know how does
AbiWord recognize the direction of GTK+ widget (GUI) - Where is the
relevant code?

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:55:47 -0400
Simon Larochelle <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Are you trying to translate the interface in a new language (in which
> language)? Or do you want to make your documents in RTL direction by
> default?
> 
> Simon Larochelle
> 
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Genghis Khan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am not certain if this is the proper mailing list to discuss on
> > this issue. I have not sent this message to abiword-dev because I
> > merely want ask for a certain part in AbiWord source code.
> >
> > I have read the last paragraph at the following page
> > http://abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtotranslation.html
> >
> > "But a better solution is to set the translation for the Gtk (not
> > AbiWord) msgid "default:LTR" to be msgstr "default:RTL". This single
> > setting modifies the "outer" directionality, influencing the
> > position of widgets within containers and the default direction of
> > all text."
> >
> >
> > May someone please bother to point out a reference to the code that
> > is responsible to the detection of "default:RTL" in gtk20.mo file?
> >


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