Thanks Kent. These justification and truncation are definitely important things to consider as I go through the necessary code.
Steve ----- "Kent Mein" <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Steve Obbayi ([email protected]): > > > Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:58:11 +0300 (EAT) > > From: Steve Obbayi <[email protected]> > > To: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] How & When could we support > right-to-left > > languages? > > Reply-To: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> > > > > I am also not sure on the progress on this, I have some knowledge of > Arabic, although > > not my first language. I would also like to get my hands dirty on > this. Any pointers on where to pick up > > will be much appreciated. > > > > Steve > > As I see it breaking things down should be like this: > do some google searches for: gettext bidi > Read up on issues and how people are doing it. > > Then we have two things we need to deal with: > truncating strings > justifcation > > For truncating strings, look at: > source/blender/blenfont/intern/blf_font.c (function blf_font_draw) > notice the len property, you'll need to rewrite this > and other functions so if bidi then > grab the string starting from the other end... > > The justifcation is probably a little more complex but same sort of > deal... > > Kent > > > > > ----- "xiangquan xiao" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > After congcong made an advertisement about garlic in the > > > blender-nations, > > > more and more volunteers come to contribute to the translation > > > program. > > > However, Hebrew and Persian(Farsi) as well as Arabic are written > from > > > right > > > to left. We have disscussed this issue not long ago, but it seems > a > > > little more > > > urgent than I ever thought. > > > > > > Is there somebody working for this? Or at least any plan? > > > I'd like to help on this, but I'm totally unfamiliar with these > > > languages, > > > as well as the text rendering process :( > > > > > > Regards! > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bf-committers mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mein > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
