[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 525371] [CJK] vertical clock time text rotated wrong way

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--- Comment #16 from Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com>  2009-09-28 03:42:39 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> my screenshot has no droid in it  

(Well the heavy Japanese font is Droid Sans Japanese AFAICT.)

(In reply to comment #15)
> [..] 3.2.[3-6] in the document of "Requirements for Japanese
> Text Layout" may help to understand the vertical layout (at least) in
> Japanese. http://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/

Thanks that is indeed a very thorough and useful reference.

> This means that vertical clock should be shown as the following in any case
> the side bar exists at right or left side.

This also applies to the the default panel menu:
"Applications" should appear first at the top if vertical
not "System", whether the panel is on the left or right.

> (<> means to set rotated 90 degrees clockwise in vertical writing mode)
> 
> 9
> 月
> 24
> 日
> 
> <13:53:34>
> 
> or
> 
> 9
> 月
> 24
> 日
> 
> 午
> 後
> <1:53:34>  

A couple of comments:

1) I guess one important point is the order: note it is different
to currently: the date should appear before time in Japanese
(ie above if using vertical text).

2) Rotating the time clockwise seems unnatural to me when on the left
I would prefer vertical time:

1
3
<:>
5
3
<:>
3
4

or

13
<:>
53
<:>
34

or

午
後
1
<:>
53
<:>
34


(To honest though I would prefer just rotating the Japanese date-time
(panel text) a la European than have a half-working vertical display.)

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