Author: wisesabre
Description:
While writing in urdu we use ٭ for making lists but this does not works.
while using ٭ lists are not generated
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
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gangleri wrote:
Hallo!
I assume this is a RTL / BiDi duplicate.
See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=745
probably
bug 2020: both list indentations with # and * fail in LTR block on RTL wiki with
MonoBook skin
regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
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gangleri wrote:
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Hallo!
To understand this *political* request please read at
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asterisk&oldid=28275328 about U+066D.
This is not just about other types of asterisks you may find at
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm?q=asterisk
It is about the
Unicode Character ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR - U 066D
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/066D/index.htm
(which might look differently depending on the font)
HTML Entity (decimal) ٭
HTML Entity (hex) ٭
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +066D
UTF-8 (hex) 0xD9 0xAD (d9ad)
It belongs to the
Unicode Characters in the Arabic Block
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/arabic/images.htm
together with the digits 0 - 9
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0660/index.htm
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0669/index.htm
The best solution would be to offer allow to define the character to be used
for list identations in a MediaWiki message same as done in
bug 3798: The arrow in [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] cannot be changed
and proposed as solution for
bug 3922: enhancement: adjust BiDi mess in category list
regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
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gangleri wrote:
removed dependency "blocks bug 745" as this not the case / this no BiDi or RTL issue
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gangleri wrote:
There are other usages of "*" in MediaWiki software.
One is mentioned in
bug 4021: Search only searched for complete words by default, not for subpatterns
bug 4021 comment 1
but try wildcarding: phra* test*
If there are keybords which do *not* contain the "*" character how "٭" (U+0669)
should be used as an equivalent?
- in all wiki's? people having the "keyboard problem" might want to search
wiki's as [[en:]], [[fr:]] etc.
- only as a local setting for a wiki?
- ???