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Text alignment should follow interface language, not wiki default/content language
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Author: brianna.laugher

Description:
In a multilingual wiki such as Commons, which has a default language English
(LTR text direction), when using uselang=XX URLs with RTL language codes (for
example ar, he), the text is still left-aligned (suits LTR languages), not right
(suits RTL). The text direction is correct, but the text alignment and
arrangement on the page is unnatural for RTL scripts.

Also form elements such as field labels still appear on the left instead of the
right.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-February/030011.html

Details

Reference
bz9137

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:35 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz9137.
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ayg wrote:

The content should still follow the directionality of the content language, of
course.

rotemliss wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6100 ***