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Java does render RtoL, LtoR and BiDi text with consistent rules. To the
best of<br>
my recollection, it uses the user's locale to determine the dominate
direction and<br>
uses that to layout the components and text in that direction. If it
encounters<br>
text that is the opposite direction, it lays that out, word by word, in
that direction.<br>
<br>
Each of the containers has a component orientation that is governed by
the user's<br>
locale. I don't think it handles a top to bottom orientation, but just
RtoL and LtoR.<br>
<br>
So that said, I think that translating our properties files is all that
is needed to<br>
do internationalization and localization.<br>
<br>
We support the right to left for Hebrew (and other RtoL) biblical
texts. That took special effort.<br>
<br>
Mete Kural wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Just a quick question here.
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<pre wrap="">We think that we
have the foundation for internationalization already
done so it should
probably be fairly straightforward.
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Does the built-in internationalization also support
right-to-left languages out of the box?
Thanks,
Mete
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