On 10/27/07, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah mebrahim@gmail.com wrote:
I think it is a design decision and shouldn't be done by me, but the RoundCube designers.
What Thomas was suggesting is - neither of us uses a RTL language. So demand and interest are next to 0 right now. So unless you come forward with a patch or find someone who is interested in contributing this, it WILL NOT get done. :)
Anyway I searched about implementing support of RTL languages in web applications, especially PHP. Here are a few useful links:
RTL support in WordPress 2.1: http://boren.nu/archives/2007/01/07/rtl-support-in-wordpress-21/ RTL in HTML, XHTML, CSS2, CSS3: http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/right-to-left.html Language information and text direction (part of HTML 4.01 specification): http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html
I think this is the simplest idea: Set a global variable in a locale-dependent file which shows this locale is RTL. Then use it wherever a 'dir="RTL"' attribute is needed. Anyway it is up to designers to decide upon this.
Can you summarize this? Do we just need to adjust the CSS for this to work,or what's the catch? (I read the wordpress-related post but it didn't say.)
If you need to contribute language files, you could go ahead as well. Requires next to zero programming skills.
http://translator.roundcube.net/
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