Why is the Arabic language not supported?

[Sameera2013]

Welcome
I am an Arab woman who speaks Arabic and I love life in Second Life, and I wish that the Arabic language would be supported by writing and commenting.
I thank everyone for their kind efforts in this beautiful virtual world.

[Alwin Alcott]

Perhaps you could create your own viewer in the language you want?.. or ask (for example) a team as Firestorm or other 3rd party viewer for adding the choice of language?
If you have a suggestion for LL, you can file a jira with your request, they made already several languages available, they might think about it.

[Sameera2013]

Thanks for the response and clarification, but what I mean is that when I write in Arabic the letters are inverted and not interconnected because there is a correlation in the words of the Arabic language, unlike the English language, which consists of letters stacked next to each other.
Also, I think all viewers do not support Arabic

[Rowan Amore]

The forums do.

https://community.secondlife.com/forums/forum/272-المنتدى-العربي/

[panterapolnocy]

As a person who is actually involved in translating Firestorm viewer into Polish language and quite often does check / correct JIRA submissions of other people in this field (French, Japanese, Russian etc.) I can tell you right away, that being a translator is a significant commitment - it's very hard to find a person who is truly dedicated and also does posses knowledge good enough to do the actual translation part; Google Translate is helpful sometimes, but it will not do the whole job. You can take a look at the very basic outlines by visiting this page. If there would be some brave adventurer out there who would like to put a lot of work, time and effort into the project /and keep going/ then they would be more than welcome on the FS JIRA. I'm not an expert in Arabic language, but if you ask for RTL support (right-to-left) then I'm not sure if viewer would support this natively - I've actually never had an occasion to test it.

Edited February 4, 2021 by panterapolnocy

[Sameera2013]

Thanks for the reply and clarification .. I agree with what you mentioned especially that I use Google Translate, but it is often disastrous
For your information, all of my responses are translated from Arabic to English through Google Translate.

[Mollymews]

2 hours ago, panterapolnocy said:

if you ask for RTL support (right-to-left) then I'm not sure if viewer would support this natively

this was my first thought as well

i dunno either. If the viewer doesn't then would most likely need a pretty big effort to redesign the viewer dialogs to accommodate this

[Oz Linden]

 

On 2/4/2021 at 3:25 AM, panterapolnocy said:

I'm not an expert in Arabic language, but if you ask for RTL support (right-to-left) then I'm not sure if viewer would support this natively

Unfortunately, this is the biggest reason. The user interface system in the viewer does not currently support right-to-left text.