VisualEditor: RTL entries don't receive dir="rtl" in Page settings / Languages
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	• bzimport
	Aug 28 2013, 10:24 PM

Description

Author: p.selitskas

Description:
Entries in Page settings / Languages don't have dir attributes for the link text. It leads to bidi issues for RTL languages.

Reproducing:

Go to an article with a langlink to Hebrew, for instance. Here's my favourite: [[en:August 3]].
Open the VisualEditor.
Go to Page settings / Languages and scroll down to 'he'.
Link text reads as "3 באוגוסט", but it should read with "3" after Hebrew characters (reading left-to-right, of course; in the beginning of the string, if right-to-left).

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Severity: normal

Status	Assigned	Task
Resolved	Jdforrester-WMF	T53792 VisualEditor: Non-English Wikipedia issues (tracking)
Invalid	Jdforrester-WMF	T35077 VisualEditor multilingual input / i18n issues (tracking)
Resolved	Jdforrester-WMF	T35126 VisualEditor: Support for right-to-left (rtl) / bidirectional content (tracking)
Resolved	None	T55503 VisualEditor: RTL entries don't receive dir="rtl" in Page settings / Languages

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:00 AM

• bzimport set Reference to bz53503.

Change 81589 had a related patch set uploaded by Wizardist:
VisualEditor: RTL entries don't receive dir="rtl" in Page settings / Languages

Change 81589 merged by jenkins-bot:
VisualEditor: RTL entries don't receive dir="rtl" in Page settings / Languages

Merged and will go out with wmf16 (from Thursday 5 September).