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Re:Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left”... by dotancohen on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:33AM (#35624938)
As a speaker of a Right-To-Left language, I see this all the time in software. Some software change the UI direction when switching to Hebrew, some don't. And culturally, it seems that Arabic users _do_ prefer the UI to be switched, but Hebrew users do not.
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