Bug 1712942 Comment 2 Edit History

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(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #1)
> It seems a bit unclear what is correct. https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/112887/in-an-rtl-language-in-what-direction-should-calendar-days-go and https://medium.com/blackboard-design/fundamentals-of-right-to-left-ui-design-for-middle-eastern-languages-afa7663f66ed
> Apparently, calendar should many times still display as LTR.

Maybe we should have a preference if there are users that would prefer left-to-right or right-to-left for their calendars. I'm not sure if you're links really apply to the day and week views, it seems the month view is more relevant.

In any case, right-to-left should be supported, and both your links mention that RTL is used, e.g. from the second link

> if it is in Arabic, the calendar flips and is displayed RTL. Sometimes the calendar will be in Arabic but still use “English” numbers. In those cases the calendar is still RTL.

Currently, the calendar week and day views assumes LTR (without enforcing it), which causes bugs in RTL (in more ways than the one listed here). The changes I'm making to the views in bug 1713130 work for both right-to-left and left-to-right, so this'll be fixed.
(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #1)
> It seems a bit unclear what is correct. https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/112887/in-an-rtl-language-in-what-direction-should-calendar-days-go and https://medium.com/blackboard-design/fundamentals-of-right-to-left-ui-design-for-middle-eastern-languages-afa7663f66ed
> Apparently, calendar should many times still display as LTR.

Maybe we should have a preference if there are users that would prefer left-to-right or right-to-left for their calendars. I'm not sure if your links really apply to the day and week views, it seems the month view is more relevant.

In any case, right-to-left should be supported, and both your links mention that RTL is used, e.g. from the second link

> if it is in Arabic, the calendar flips and is displayed RTL. Sometimes the calendar will be in Arabic but still use “English” numbers. In those cases the calendar is still RTL.

Currently, the calendar week and day views assumes LTR (without enforcing it), which causes bugs in RTL (in more ways than the one listed here). The changes I'm making to the views in bug 1713130 work for both right-to-left and left-to-right, so this'll be fixed.

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