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Although RTL languages are read RTL coordinates on Wikidata are presented as LTR and should be aligned as LTR.
This needs to be adjusted in the pop-up when adding a statement using the globe coordinate datatype and the published statement on the Item page
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Hello, this ticket might be related to this one here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T431787
Acceptance Criteria
| Subject | Author | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| [MEX] M5 - align coordinates on RTL as LTR | Zaidusyy | mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase | master | +11 -0 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T394621 [MEX] Mobile Editing Experience of Items Project | |||
| Open | None | T415326 [MEX] M5 - additional functionality and clean up | |||
| In Progress | Zaidusyy | T429684 [MEX] M5 - align coordinates on RTL as LTR |
Hello! I'd like to work on this task. I am currently looking into the implementation and plan to submit a patch for review.
Change #1304599 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zaidusyy; author: Zaidusyy):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase@master] [MEX] M5 - align coordinates on RTL as LTR
It looks like desktop handles this correctly, at least to my ltr-language-only eyes... But, I don't understand *how*.
In this screenshot, you can see that the <div> containing the map itself explicitly sets the direction with the html attribute dir="ltr". But, the caption element, <div class="wikibase-kartographer-caption">, doesn't have this.
There are no explicit style rules that set the direction for this element, but it does inherit rtl from .mw-body:
The computed styles contain this confusing bit. As best I can figure out, the browser itself is overriding it?
Also note: it's not just the alignment of the text. Something very strange is happening to the order of the characters as well.
For example, this is a correctly formatted, LTR coordinate: 46°3'23.0"N, 14°31'0.2"E
With an RTL language, that same value appears as this absolutely chaotic jumble: N, 14°31'0.2"E"23.0'46°3