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• chrismorgan 8y ago
  Not closely related, but this made me think of another fascinating aspect of localisation. In places like Australia and America, if you have a group of people and you’re going round them (e.g. reading in turns or playing various card games), you’d be more likely to go clockwise from on top rather than counter-clockwise. But in India, they naturally go counter-clockwise from on top rather than clockwise, and I once saw someone playing a game of hearts on a phone there, and it was going counter-clockwise. Localisation definitely entails more than just translating strings. Layout and functionality changes can be involved.
  • marton78 8y ago
    In my native Hungary we also play counter clockwise, so I looked it up[1]: Dealing is done either clockwise or counterclockwise. If this is omitted from the rules, then it should be assumed to be: * clockwise for games from North America, North and West Europe and Russia; * counterclockwise for South and East Europe and Asia, also for Swiss games and all Tarot games. [1] https://www.pagat.com/mech.html https://www.pagat.com/mech.html
• ygra 8y ago
  In Latin script you do. Most programming languages I know are not in Hebrew. And even then the LHS would be first in reading order, I'd assume.
• sho 8y ago
  Oh yes you do, or you couldn't even use this site, let alone do any programming. For better or worse left-to-right has "won" in programming-land and I fully agree with alangpierce that it's the natural choice for evaluation order as well. We read left-to-right and the computer should as well. That's one of the main problems I have with Python. Evaluating right-to-left just feels like being contrarian.