by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2005/08/30 09:40 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/08/30/457960.aspx
This is undeniably cool -- the Keyboard Convert Service localized into Arabic!
If you are interested in getting it now (or even if you are just interested in looking at the download page in Arabic!) you can see it at:
Arabic of course joins that ever growing list of languages for this useful tool....
It also highlights something important that developers do not think about as often as they perhaps should -- the difference between the logical order of the text and the visual order. The simple fact that you can use the Keyboard Convert Service to switch the text to that of an Arabic keyboard versus one in an LTR language relies on the even simpler fact that the typing of keystrokes (obviously based on a logical order) can do drastically different things, visually, depending on the keyboard used.
Of course learning this lesson did not require the Arabic localized version of the tool (this functionality has nothing to do with the language of the user interface). But it does help remind us that every version of Windows has full internationalization support!
# Jonathan on 31 Aug 2005 1:34 AM:
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