localization of ui

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 09:54:03PM +0800, baigali wrote:
> >AFAIK, traditional Mongolian has no history of being written
> >horizontally, it is one of the vertical-only scripts. But if it must be
> >written horizontally, then it seems the current practice is to write it
> >from left to right. Mongolian OpenType fonts are also designed to be
> >left to right when the text is laid out horizontally.
> >
> >When laid out vertically, Mongolian lines start from the left side of
> >the page not the write side as CJK scripts. LibreOffice seems to support
> >this internally, but we have no UI to enable it:
> >https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61846
> >https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33278
> Thank you,
> firstly.
> Yes, Libreoffice aready support traditional mongolian internally,but
> there exist some problem ,like cursor traveling ,anchored object
> positioning etc. in writer.
> And turned off traditional mongolian support in UI at file
> cui/source/tabpages/page.cxx line 259,due to above reason.

I enabled it 2 days ago, the existing issues should be reported in
bugzilla. Sleeping on the code disabled for 6 years is not the best way
to fix bugs.

> But, I am now making a traditional Mongolian UI, and if I show
> mongolian script vertically in UI it seems many work should do in vcl,
> so in recent stage i just want to show mongolian script horizontally
> in UI.

I’m curious how vertical UI would look like, do you have any examples of
such UIs? VCL is the place to start, but I fear this might be a big
undertaking.

Regards,
Khaled