gangleri wrote:

changed summary to emphasize the todo's:
new summary: BiDi: Embed links for parent pages according to content language

(In reply to comment #0)

I opened the request from bug 4040 as an individual bug.Please look at the links to

the "parent pages" at[[yi:user:Gangleri/tests/TOC_and_sections]]. There the links overlap.

*details*
If you move the mouse either on
באַניצער
or on
Gangleri
you will see that the link is "interrupted" by "tests".

I think it should be a general rule that links should be generated only by consecutive
characters only.

The links should be embeded as:‫[[באַניצער:Gangleri]]‬ | ‫[[באַניצער

:Gangleri/tests|tests]]‬regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

Please use a method which is suitable for the most browsers. We should use the same method
for all such / similar fixes. See how bug bug 3922 is implemented.
bug 3922: links are not properly rendered in a BiDi category list

*providing more testcases*
a) http://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=129120
http://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=user:Gangleri/tests/BiDi/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%
D8%AF%D9%85_M%C3%BCnchen_%28%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AE%29/foo/bar&oldid=129120

there "Gangleri" is in the middle; there are parent pages to the left and to the right of it

b) http://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=129113
http://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=user:Gangleri/tests/BiDi/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%
D8%AF%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AE_%28M%C3%BCnchen%29/foo/bar&oldid=129113

there you can see two overlappings according to the BiDi algorithm; move the mouse on "foo"
or "Gangleri"; what looks very odd is that between the two "|" characters located leftmost
and rightmost to "foo" there are other characters as well

gangleri wrote:

Test cases are available at
http://www.anubite.co.uk/mediawiki/head-rtl/index.php/category:Bugzilla/04045
a RTL wiki mirrored at another LTR wiki
http://www.anubite.co.uk/mediawiki/head/index.php/category:Bugzilla/04045

*note*
The page title at
http://www.anubite.co.uk/mediawiki/head-rtl/index.php/user:Gangleri/bugzilla_report_/_04045_/_%D7%90_a_/_b_%D7%91
looks like a puzzle. This is what the bidirectional algorithm does with such
mixed LTR and RTL charactes.

Thanks Rob!

gangleri wrote:

*note*
The title of
http://www.anubite.co.uk/mediawiki/head-rtl/index.php/user:Gangleri/bugzilla_report_/_04045_/_a_b_/_%D7%90_%D7%91_/_%21
משתמש:Gangleri/bugzilla report / 04045 / a b / א ב / !
displays as
‫‏משתמש:Gangleri/bugzilla report / 04045 / a b / א ב / !‏‪

However if you know how to copy the page title from the url above you may copy
and wikify it. This is why directionality of titles should *not* be tuched.

best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

We would have to change the message 'pipe-separator' from ' | ' to ' ‫|‫ ' for RTL interface and ' ‪|‪ ' for LTR interface, but the problem is how to make the message dependent on the direction of the interface.

Fix committed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#change,5231 .

(Thanks a million to hashar for cleaning up the Git mess that was involved in committing this simple little patch...)