Comment 59 for bug 654988

This list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

Shows the following stats:
Arabic in the 5th place with somewhere between 255 to 422 million speakers.
Urdu in the 13th place with 104 million speakers.
Persian in the 25th place with somewhere between 56.6 to 110 million
speakers.

Hebrew (not on this list and much less significant) with 5.3 million native
speakers not including Arab Israelis that use Hebrew on a daily basis.

The numbers are reaching from 400 to 640 million, do whatever you please.

Yaron Shahrabani

<Hebrew translator>

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Stephen M. Webb <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> @Yaron
>
> Falling back to Unity-2D has not been an option since Unity-2D was
> dropped from Ubuntu.
>
> Yes, it's true that this bug will not be addressed for Saucy (13.10).
> Adding proper LtR support to the Unity 7 stack is a large risk that will
> require several weeks of full-time engineering work and it competes with
> many other bug for the available resources. I can only offer apologies
> and say "maybe next cycle."
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654988
>
> Title:
> Unity doesn't mirror its interface for RTL locales.
>
> Status in Ubuntu Translations:
> New
> Status in Unity:
> Triaged
> Status in Unity 2D:
> Fix Released
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that for languages that are written from right to left, the
> unity interfaces stays the same. This is a little inconsistent with
> other GNOME apps: the left sidebar with the launchers should be on the
> right, and the top panel's items should be ordered from right to left.
> The fact that now the menubar is rendered by unity makes it even more
> bothering. The menus are rendered in reversed direction, and open to
> the right instead of to the left.
>
> Freeze Exception Notes:
> The exception is only for Unity 2D for which the RTL support is ready.
> The code impact is fairly small and the user interface for non RTL
> languages is left entirely untouched.
>
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