Re: Question concerning to locale direction detection

As far as I know, we don't recognize the directions widgets should be in
ourselves: GTK does that part for us.

We do recognize the direction ourselves in the main editting canvas
ofcourse.

Cheers,
  Marc


On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 01:20 -0400, Genghis Khan wrote:
> 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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