thank you colin for great explanation, yes we already added default:RTL to this string, https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/gtk+3.0/+pots/gtk-3.0/ckb/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=default%3ARTL
Jwtiyar Nariman Google Map Maker (RL) *Physical Lab. / Internal Auditor (ISO 9001:2015)* *Mass Iraq Co. for cement industry * My Blog <http://jwtear.blogspot.com> Why Linux Is Better <http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/index_ku.php?lang=ku> Freedom For Abdullah Ocalan (APO) <http://www.freedom-for-ocalan.com/> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 8:16 PM Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 05:09:18PM +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > > On 2020-03-28 06:44, Jwtiyar ali wrote: > > > The interface of ubuntu with new kurdish(sorani) language is LTR not > > > RTL, what we can do to make it RTL? > > > > I don't know off hand. > > > > According to this page it's RTL: > > https://translations.launchpad.net/+languages/ckb > > FWIW, I'm reasonably sure that the only thing affected by Launchpad's > direction setting for a language is how various bits of the Launchpad > web UI itself are displayed. The translations themselves are basically > just Unicode text (or packed versions of that) and it's up to clients to > display them appropriately. > > > And when I try e.g. Arabic, RTL is enabled automatically. > > > > Possibly it has something to do with GTK and the fact that the ckb_IQ > locale > > has not yet been released upstream (the latest glibc release is 2.31 > while > > the ckb_IQ locale will be widely spread in the Linux community only with > > glibc 2.32). So I'm thinking that GTK may not yet recognize ckb as a > > language where RTL applies. > > > > Colin, do you possibly have an idea what more there is into it? > > There's a string in GTK whose msgid is "default:LTR", and you're > supposed to set its msgstr to either "default:LTR" if your language is > left-to-right or "default:RTL" if your language is right-to-left. Check > that that string is translated correctly for ckb. > > Beyond that, I'm not really an expert on things at this level; I > wouldn't be surprised to find other similar bits and pieces that need to > be adjusted for RTL languages. > > -- > Colin Watson [[email protected]] >
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