Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Anonymous
Anonymous asked in Computers & InternetSoftware Β· 19 hours ago

Arabic software - menu on the right side?

I know Arabic words start from right to left. I'd like to ask a question about the software. I noticed that a lot of software associated with Arabic language has all the menus placed on the right...(iOS, Android, Instagram, etc...) Does this apply to EVERY software associated with Arabic language? Or is there any software that uses left sided menus like the ones we normally use in the US?

Pleaseee software geniuses with Arab background... answer my question... Thank you :)

Updated 10 hours ago:

The person below who answered this question. You're the one who's giving me a completely irrelevant/useless answer. I recently started working in the IT industry and have to make sure if Arab users are comfortable using the right-side aligned software. How is this a useless question when I HAVE TO make sure our software runs in an appropriate way?

2 Answers

Relevance
  • βˆ…
    Lv 7
    10 hours ago

    it is up to the programmer to decide where things are located.

    since Arabic is written rtl, it makes more sense for them to put menus on the right.

  • Anonymous
    17 hours ago

    What a useless question. Who cares? If you don't already know of any counterexamples and know that it's extremely common to do it a certain way, then it's completely irrelevant if a site or app you don't use does it a different (and probably wrong) way.Β 

    EDIT:

    "I recently started working in the IT industry and have to make sure if Arab users are comfortable using the right-side aligned software. How is this a useless question when I HAVE TO make sure our software runs in an appropriate way?"

    Because you π’‚π’π’“π’†π’‚π’…π’š π’Œπ’π’π’˜ that Arabic-reading people are using right-aligned software, and are thus comfortable using it. You said it yourself: "I noticed that a lot of software associated with Arabic language has all the menus placed on the right." You don't 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 a counterexample, except as an excuse not to implement something, or to do it incorrectly. How do you expect to survive the IT industry with such a defective thought process?Β 

    "I noticed that a lot of questions asked in English have a question mark at the end. I want to know if this applies to EVERY question ever asked in English, or if they can end in a hamburgerπŸ”"

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.