dimanche 15 mars 2015

Which version of Mac OS X was the first to support RTL (right-to-left) languages?


Apple – Press Info – Mac OS X Hits Stores This Weekend (2001) listed seven languages for 10.0. From an archived Apple knowledge base article Mac OS X 10.6: Changing the direction of text I know that Snow Leopard included support for right-to-left and bidirectional text. From the knowledge base:



… When using certain right-to-left writing systems such as Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Persian, Pashto, and Urdu, you may need to quote words from left-to-right writing systems, such as English. When right-to-left text is mixed with left-to-right text, it is called bidirectional text. …



However:



  • I can't tell which version of the operating system introduced support for RTL.


Apple - Mac OS X Snow Leopard - Technical specifications doesn't list Arabic or Hebrew amongst the languages, so (by implication) whilst operating system localisations at that time did not include those languages, the OS did support RTL.




I tried searching domains such as mellel.com, redlers.com and www.apple.com/pr – e.g. http://ift.tt/1BIbITE – couldn't find an answer.


If it helps: http://ift.tt/18OKFKN states that development of Mellel began in 2002 (and I recall Mellel being renowned for RTL support).





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