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The directionality (RTL/LTR) of definitions must match the directionality of the script in which they're written
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On Expression and DefinedMeaning pages all the definitions appear as left-to-right text if the user's interface language is LTR and as RTL if the user's language is RTL.

It would be nice to have them always displayed according to their inherent directionality: right-to-left if the language is right-to-left - Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Hebrew, Yiddish, Divehi, etc., and left-to-right if it's not. The current wrong display is immediately noticeable, because according to http://www.omegawiki.org/Help:Definition , definition must end with a period, and the period appears in the wrong end of the sentence when the directionality of the definition is different from the directionality of the user's preferred language.

Maybe i'm naive, but this should be fairly trivial to implement.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:07 PM
• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-extensions-WikiLexicalData-or-OmegaWiki, I18n.
• bzimport set Reference to bz23035.
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Amire80 created this task.Apr 3 2010, 10:27 PM
siebrand added a comment.Aug 2 2011, 12:12 PM

Robin, is this something you would want to look into?

SPQRobin added a comment.Sep 3 2011, 8:21 PM

In itself it's not that difficult: just adding lang & dir attributes at the right place. But I am not familiar at all with the OmegaWiki code, nor can I easily install the extension. We should probably talk with Kipcool or someone else about this bug.

• Purodha renamed this task from the directionality (RTL/LTR) of definitions must match the directionality of the language in which they're written to The directionality (RTL/LTR) of definitions must match the directionality of the script in which they're written.Nov 9 2015, 12:39 AM
• Purodha raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.
• Purodha set Security to None.
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• Purodha added a comment.Nov 9 2015, 12:44 AM

This applies to all fields of relational data in the Expression and DefinedMeaning pages. Also, html attributes lang and/or xml:lang are missing. They can easily be added in one go with the dir attributes.

• Purodha mentioned this in T118139: Extend 'language' table by a field to identity the script of an entry.Nov 9 2015, 1:02 AM
• Purodha moved this task from Backlog to Restructuring requests on the MediaWiki-extensions-WikiLexicalData-or-OmegaWiki board.Nov 14 2015, 12:25 PM
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Base moved this task from Untriaged to RTL on the I18n board.Jul 18 2020, 12:56 AM
Kizule closed this task as Declined.Oct 26 2023, 6:38 AM
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Per T271379: Archive the WikiLexicalData extension.

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Kizule closed subtask T118140: Add a 'script' table as Declined.Oct 26 2023, 6:39 AM
Kizule closed subtask T118139: Extend 'language' table by a field to identity the script of an entry as Declined.
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