Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: swapping tables and messages boxes to make it clear for arabic translation

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3: Re: swapping tables and messages boxes to make it clear for arabic translation (response to 1)
Posted by Jade Rubick on 08/20/03 07:25 PM
Perhaps we also might group similar types of languages? Japanese can be either left-to-right-top-to-bottom or top-to-bottom-right-to-left, for example. So the IF statements would get pretty long in the templates if we did them for each language.

But then there would be version control issues if every language had its own template.

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9: Re: swapping tables and messages boxes to make it clear for arabic translation (response to 3)
Posted by Guan Yang on 01/07/04 06:56 PM
Japanese can be either left-to-right-top-to-bottom or top-to-bottom-right-to-left. In practice Japanese (and most CJK languages) are written left-to-right-top-to-bottom in any modern context, e.g. on computers.