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--- Comment #16 from Jens Petersen petersen@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.)