Dear all,
TL;DR: the RTL support and Arabic locale are broken at the moment, but
we could fix it rather quickly — and it would be nice to do so.
We used to be RTL-proof in the very early ages of this project and the
Arabic locale was in quite good shape. But as we focused on the
“official” 1.x locales, we lost traction on Arabic and RTL — most apps
don’t display well at all in RTL mode now.
Here’s the wiki page and tracking bug for the RTL support:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:B2G/RTL
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906270
Ahmed Nefzaoui (Tunisian contributor) has started working on RTL patches
and he’s done a very good work so far.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883673
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833401
My opinion about that is that’s it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem:
we won’t get proper RTL support without supporting Arabic (or Hebrew)
officially, and vice-versa.
Suggestion: what about promoting Arabic to an “officially supported
locale” status, include it in our test builds, and get some help from
the Arabic-speaking community to report RTL issues and propose fixes?
Ahmed suggested to organize a localization sprint for Firefox OS during
the next Arabic Mozilla meet-up. I think it would be a great opportunity
for a couple Gaia developers and UX engineers to meet the Arabic
community and land the most important RTL fixes while the translation is
being done.
Thoughts?
:kazé
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