2024-10-10, 16:00–16:30 (Europe/Luxembourg), C1.05.12
LibreOffice supports different languages and language groups, including
those languages written from right to left: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and
even N'ko and others.
It is somewhat of a tradition, once every few LOCons, for members of the
right-to-left LO online language-communities to describe the state of
LibreOffice' RTL language support, as perceived by users and QA
contributors rather than project developers.
This session will:
- Relate aspects of the usage experience of writers of RTL languages;
- Survey significant changes since the last state-of-RTL session - organizationally and code-wise;
- Illustrate outstanding "pain points" for RTL language users;
- suggest and re-emphasize avenues of future development effort for fundamental improvemtn in the support for these languages.
As always, these sessions combine an aspect which is introductory (and thus repetitive) for those who are not conscious of the needs or RTL language speakers, or writers I should say, the main part of the session which surveys "new stuff", and the future prospects which, depending on recent work, may or may not be similar to the last session.
- LibreOffice QA enthusiast (I file a lot of bugs)
- Speaker of Hebrew and some Arabic
- One of the few active users on the LibreOffice RTL, Hebrew and Arabic Telegram channels
- Free Software Developer - but not in LibreOffice: https://https://github.com/eyalroz/
- GPU guy
- Anti-war activist