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Enhancement: localization #12

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mirohsopened this issue Mar 18, 2022 · 2 comments
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Enhancement: localization #12

mirohsopened this issue Mar 18, 2022 · 2 comments

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mirohs commented Mar 18, 2022

From 7guis created bydumblob:eugenkiss/7guis#32

Nowadays pretty much every GUI has to be localized. This is actually rather difficult, because simple GUI libs use the text as identifier (which becomes impossible if localized) and complex GUIs are further more complicated.

Something like a localized calculator (latin, arabic, rome, chinese, japan number systems and operation names) could be a nice showcase of the GUI library capabilities.
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mirohs commented Mar 18, 2022

Things that could be tested:

  • translation
  • date localization
  • left-to-right vs right-to-left text
  • left-to-right vs right-to-left input
  • BIDI input

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mirohs commented Mar 18, 2022

Another important issue is collation for unicode comparisons and sorting, i.e. depending on the language of the user, two strings may or may not be equal.

This becomes incredibly important when doing searches, especially fuzzy ones.

Another, simple but important, issue is changing languages on the fly, without having to restart or reload the application.

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