On 01/11/2011 08:18 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Max Samukha"<spam...@d-coding.com> wrote in message
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On 01/11/2011 05:36 PM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
Yes, what I meant was that the names are stripl and stripr yet the
description of
those functions are strip leading and strip trailing... at least put
strip left
and string right on the description so it matches the names.
Sorry for misunderstanding.
I don't think that the description needs to match the names literally.
However, I would aviod "trailing" and "leading", because in RTL
environments they can have the opposite meaning.
I would have thought RTL languages got stored as RTL. If so, then "leading"
and "trailing" would be correct and "left"/"right" would be wrong (unless
the internal behavior of stripl and stripr takes language-direction into
account, which would surprise me).
AFAIK, there is no universal standard on storing RTL text. There are
recommendations to prefer logical order over visual order because visual
order is extremely inflexible. I am not an expert in this field and have
to shut up.
