On 10/08/14 20:06, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:

בתאריך 10 באוג 2014 23:01, "Ori Livneh" <ori@wikimedia.org> כתב:
> Can't it simply be known as "the left rail" in Arabic, then?

No, because a lot of speakers of RTL languages will read emails, blog posts and village pump notifications about it in English and will try to understand how it applies to their projects. Let's try to prevent the confusion from the start.

Do they not notice that the interface is flipped between LTR and RTL languages? Intuitively it seems like that would be the assumption, that right would simply become left.

That said, it does seem like a better solution would just be to refer to the thing by its function rather than position anyway, mind you. Functions are important, and if they're not important, well, that's a problem all by itself.

-I