Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.7) Installed from: Gentoo Packages OS: Linux Hello, When I switch Amarok to Japanese language, there is a minor bug. At the left bars, where you can switch between collection, file browser and so on, the strings are rotated in English and German about 90°. The same happens with Japanese. But Japanese can also be written vertically, so there is no need to rotate the entire string. It is hard to read the Characters when they are rotated 90 degrees. See this article to illustrate how it should look like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical_writing_in_East_Asian_scripts The bars at the left side are perfectly suited to display Japanese vertically (I think it should also apply to Chinese, although they usually don’t write that way any more, I think they still use it on Book covers and so on; don’t know about Korean). I think it could be done by maybe a little database where information is stored, which languages could be displayed in that matter (ja, zh) and if such a locale is chosen, it would not be rotated. This would really make this much more easier to read and use a feature of that writing systems which is perfectly suited for this kind of problem. Thanks Gerrit
Created attachment 21115 [details] Picture of how the characters are displayed
does Konqueror's sidebar actually draw the letters vertically?
No, I also just saw that there is the same problem in Konqueror. I think it is a general kde issue then.
Well, Amarok is using a costum widget for the sidebar AFAIK, therefore the issues aren't directly related. Still, please also report the issue to Konqueror in case it isn't yet. As for Amarok: since the widget is getting a work over for Amarok 2.0 it might be a good idea to fix this issue at the same time.
woops, wrong status :S
This is definitely a (localisation-)bug as you don't rotate some scripts. Here's some paper to read: http://unicode.org/notes/tn22/
Someone please check if this is still a problem in Amarok 2.
Although I couldn't read Japanese to save my life, or in general tell you which way the characters are meant to be, looking at the screenshot it seems that the characters are still rotated and not drawn vertically. Interestingly, the text on both the 'Internet' and 'FIles' tabs are in English, is this a translation issue, or a bug? Gary
This still is a bug. However, I don't even have the slightest clue of how we'd go about fixing it without having messy code. I think that ideally this would be implemented at the kdelibs level (or even qt) where we could have a drawVerticalText method, or a isWrittenVertically() method. For us to fix it in Amarok would require keeping an up to date list of which languages would like to be written vertically, and special casing it in the code. Definately not something I'm a fan of doing.
Should this be clouse becouse it is field against 1.4 with is unmaintained?
Changing severity to make this show up in our query.
we no longer have a sidebar...