| [19:50] | AryehGregor | Have we looked at this? http://code.google. |
| [19:53] | Nikerabbit | why should we? we already know bidi is broken |
| [20:16] | AryehGregor | . . . |
| [20:17] | Nikerabbit | it's not funny, it's sad |
The reaction of Nikerabbit, an expert on language support is surprising me. Recognisable improvements came to MediaWiki with the work done for the Usability Initiative. As many of our bigger Wikipedias are using scripts that are right to left, it is crucial to implement this properly. Having a tool for the testing of bidirectional functionality, a tool that prevents regressions makes excellent sense.
I am left with two questions:
- what is the state of BIDI support
- does it make sense to make the BidiChecker part of the testing environment.
GerardM
1 comment:
Yet again i say: The bidi support in Hebrew WMF wikis is OK.
The two biggest problems with bidi are:
1. RTL and LTR don't live so well together in one wiki. The biggest problem for this matter is Commons. This is also a problem for someone who doesn't know Hebrew or Arabic, but wants to ask someone a question in English on his RTL talk page.
2. LiquidThreads doesn't support RTL yet. ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20934 )
Arabic script wikis may have other problems of which i am not aware.
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