On 3/18/09, Bert Timmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > User A has a design with a font in latin, user B in Hebrew and user C in > Arabic, user D in Japanese ... left to right, right to left, > top-down ... > > It is all so confusing to keep silk from copper for every font there is > out there ... > > Localised and internationalised boards, the thought alone gives me > shivers.
The checks are made against drawing primitives (at most, lines, arcs and polygons); these primitives don't depend on the script, be it even in bustrophedon; any text in ordinary layouts fits roughly into a rectangular area, probably rotated (not right now, but eventually one may want to FreeRotate texts, too) --- there are few sources for any confusion. And these [ABCD] most probably know the languages they use. Ah! yes, if the texts are to be replaced dymamically to conform current user's locale settings, it would be a nightmare. I wonder if any existing PCB design software can do this. Regards, Ineiev _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
