[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 142724] In "Asian Phonetic Guide" dialog, Options in "Position" drop-down menu are mislabeled.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142724

--- Comment #2 from Ming Hua <ming.v.hua at qq.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> I think this needs to be solved in the translation. Cannot think of a
> generic terminology like odd/even instead of left/right pages regarding LTR
> vs RTL.
It has nothing to do with RTL.

(In reply to Petro Ding from comment #0)
> 1. Set the page's text direction to "Right-to-left (vertical)"; to do this,
> select "Format > Page Style > Page > Paper Format > Text Direction >
> Right-to-left (vertical)".
The text direction relevant here is "Right-to-left (vertical)", which means
text flows vertically, from top to bottom, then the rows (text lines? columns?)
are arranged from right to left.  (The terminology is indeed confusing, which
probably should be another bug.)

This is the traditional text direction for Chinese and Japanese.  There are
also scripts that write vertically, but lines are arranged from left to right,
such as traditional Mongolian (also called Hudum script).

So here the problem is that Chinese/Japanese text can be horizontal or
vertical, and there are plenty of UI parts that are aware of this difference
and change accordingly (indent icons on toolbar, for example), but the Asian
Phonetic Guide dialog simply doesn't, and always assume horizontal text
direction.

To reiterate, this is not the left/right difference that RTL languages usually
have with UI, but horizontal/vertical difference (likely) specific to CJK.  And
both directions are used in the same language, therefore the problem exists for
English UI as well.

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