2015-12-08 4:30 GMT-07:00 Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr:
On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Alex Henrie wrote:
2015-12-07 4:56 GMT-07:00 Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr:
I removed Hebrew "translations" of cmd.rc that were just copies of the English strings,
There was a reason for these. Has anything changed?
What was the reason?
See the discussion below with this email stating the Hebrew translator's decision as far as command-line tools are concerned: https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2011-August/091771.html
Thanks for the link, it was very enlightening. I think the real question is: Are we going to support complex scripts in wineconsole (Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Thai), even though Windows does not?
Bug 28193 was las tconfirmed in June and while it's totally possible someone added RTL support to wineconsole without me noticing since then it seems unlikely. Similarly the situation of the various Unix terminal emulators probably did not change. So I suspect the answer is not any time soon, and most likely not in 1.8.
I emailed Microsoft about complex scripts in the Command Prompt, and received the following reply from Yosef Durr: "We are tracking this issue and I don’t have an update at this time." I assume that this means Microsoft considers lack of complex script support to be a bug and they plan to fix it in a future version of Windows. So, there is no reason for us not to fully support these languages in Wine. We might even get it working before Microsoft does ;-)
If the answer is "yes" then removing the copied English from he.po was the right thing to do, to make room for real translations in the future. If the answer is "no" then we should delete the existing Arabic command translations and replace them with English too.
Removing the corresponding Arabic translation would probably make sense and at least be consistent but it would be more correct to discuss it with the translator first...
I am CC'ing Mosaab Alzoubi, the Arabic translation's author.
-Alex