Dan Sully said: > * Triode shaped the electrons to say... >>Changing text order is conceptually easy, changing the direction of >>scrolling is harder... >> >>Is there an easy way to tell which text should be ordered the other way >> Dan? > > Not easily - there would need to be a user pref, and some guessing.
This rapidly gets really hard, and probably belongs over on the dev-list. You can easily tell the language given a Unicode string. And so have a dispatch that sets it one way or the other for Hebrew, Arabic and other that don't follow the western European tradition. But you have to at least allow a library of tunes to have mixed albums, some in English or French and some in mid-Eastern languages. So you at least have to switch the scrolling direction by tune/song. To do this right, you have to handle Hebrew/Arabic words in English titles, and vice versa, which is where it starts to get very tricky. I'm only smart enough to know it is hard, I don't know all the rules. Pat http://www.pfarrell.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
