It all began when I attended a webinar about the role of pictures in intercultural communication some weeks ago. The speaker, who was using a Japanese brochure to illustrate an example of non-Latin scripts, started talking about RTL languages and confusing both directions, which in fact are opposite to each other.

During five minutes that seemed like an eternity, our speaker kept using the acronym RTL to refer to a Right-to-Left layout while erroneously telling the audience that RTL was an acronym for Left-to-Right.

Read more: https://ka2in.github.io/mydocusaurus/blog/first-blog-post/

#RTL #l10n #visualcommunication #technicaldocumentation #geometry #biomorphicdesign #calligraphy

Picture by the “Electronic Frontier Foundation” under CC BY 2.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/