[fpc-pascal] LTR or RTL info from users locale settings?

[ik]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:30 PM, ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No, you can not know by the "normal" locale. You must check to see what
> is
> > the type of locale:
> > 1. Hebrew
> > 2. Many forms of Arabic (you have more then 6 if I remember correctly)
> >
> > That's the only way I know to detect if the locale is RightToLeft or
> > LeftToRight.
>
> Thanks. I'll double check what Java does, seeing that that is the only
> other framework I know that supports so many platforms and has the
> direction detection built in.


Java supports all of Unicode's standards, so they also implement Bidi (I
hope one day fpGUI will also support it in a native form)


>
>
>
> > I started working on something for Lazarus but I accidently deleted it
> > before backup,
>
> Git [http://git-scm.com/] is your friend!  ;-)
>
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
>
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