Language problem with Firefox 3 beta

[Willy Hamra]

thanks, but no need to, i prefer to see stuff in their original english way,
and since almost all my studies are in english, i prefer it to be my main
locale. i have arabic (lebanese) installed, and use it only in openoffice if
i ever wanted to write arabic there. other than that, it's all english.

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/5/5 Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
> > after using arabic on windows once as a locale, and seeing the mess it
> > created, i decided to not use locales anymore, at least, not a
> > right-to-left language, this issue still needs a lot of work, before
> > programs behave correctly with such languages.
> >
>
> I am familiar with the mess Windows makes of RTL languages such as
> Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi. The left arrow moves right (sometimes),
> text aligned to the left (sometimes), backward interfaces (sometimes).
> While Ubuntu is not 100% perfect in this regard, it is at least much
> more consistent and logical. Left arrow _always_ moves left. Right
> _always_ moves right. Only in the CLI I have the letters reversed.
>
> Which Arabic locale do you prefer? I can check to see how things
> behave and post KDE screenshots if you want.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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