[Scummvm-devel] Improving translation support in ScummVM

[Johannes Schickel]

On 06/24/2010 01:08 PM, Michael Madsen wrote:
>> I actually think that supporting left-to-right languages is (much!)
>> easier than support for top-to-bottom languages... I probably agree
>> with you that top-to-bottom languages are too much work ;-).
>>
>>      
> Fortunately, there are no languages which only allow top-to-bottom. :) CJK
> tends to use top-to-bottom for classical text, but for modern text,
> standard left-to-right is quite common, so that would be a completely
> valid choice here.
>    

Sounds sensible :-).

> Actually, I would imagine that a language like Arabic would be much harder
> to get working - most characters are drawn differently depending on their
> position in a word.
>    

Guess the one who works on the font renderer will have some more fun 
there ;-P

// Johannes