Re: Long over the top post about right to left Languages andAlignment

[Guest jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk]

Re: Long over the top post about right to left Languages andAlignment

 

On 21 May, 05:21, "jameshanle...@yahoo.co.uk"

<jameshanle...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> It seems to me that looking at programs

>

> Notepad, Wordpad, MS Word, Textpad

>

> Every program behaves a bit differently.

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> -----------Notepad and the start...Run dialog box----------

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> You do need to do that installation of R-->L languages.

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> CTRL + L/R SHIFT  does not work until You have added [support for] R->L languages. i.e. ctrl panel...regional language options... "Install

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> files forcomplexscriptand right-to-left languages....."  

 

Actually..

The label next to the checkbox, says

"Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages,

(including Thai)"

 

And although it suggests it,, it is misleading. The fact is, that Thai

is not a right-to-left language.

 

What the option really does, is it installs a bunch of additional

languages, with complex scripts. mostly L-R, but some are R-L.

Hebrew, Arabic, maybe Syriac , are right to left

 

It installs right-to-left languages, and languages of compex script.

 

I imagine that all right-to-left languages are complex script.

Apparently what it means by complex script, is that is it may take

marks/dots around the letters. It could also be that the scripts

don't look anything like or are not, english or latin.

 

So.. Complex Scripts, including those of right-to-left language. I

think it installs the so-called Languages, and corresponding

Layouts(scripts)

 

If you uncheck it, a msgbox pops up and says

"If you remove arabic, armenian, Georgian, hebrew, indic, thai, and

vietnamese language files, you will no longer be able to enter or

display text in"

 

and if you check it, it says

"You chose to install the arabic, armenian, Georgian, hebrew, indic,

thai, and vietnamese ..."

 

I suppose it installs the Layout files used by those languages too..

The language doesn't seem to make much difference. Layout means

Script/alphabet. The language you choose in windows, does help to

identify what language you are switching to, if switching using the

option in the taskbar.

 

One can write one language using the script of another, and windows

doesn't know or care what language you are writing in.

 

It may be useful if software has a dictionary function.. for it to

know.. Though I don't know if software like Ms Word would use that

setting to see which dictionary to use. for spell checks. So, language

chosen is not that significant..

 

But.. If you choose Arabic or Hebrew, then the cursor in MS Word,

will be a right-to-left cursor. So you could choose either of those

if you want that cursor. And then whichever Layout.. And the layout is

the important one. That defines what letters you get. Hebrew, arabic,

whatever. Similarly, you could choose any european language, which

uses left-to-right, with any layout - pref an alphabet you will be

writing the same direction - left-to-right. It can be useful to choose

any european language if testing different layouts that you will be

typing left-to-right.

New Layouts can be created with MSKLC.