Comment 4 for bug 74

We can use GTK's PO files to get an initial list of languages with RTL as the global text direction.

During initialisation, GTK tries to translate the string "default:LTR". If the translation is "default:RTL" it uses RTL as the default direction for the interface. So the list of PO files for GTK that translate "default:LTR" to "default:RTL" should give a good starting point for a list of RTL languages.

Doing a grep over my CVS checkout of GTK, I get the following RTL languages:

  ar, az_IR, fa, he, yi

The translations currently in Rosetta might indicate some more ones.