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!
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