Author: gangleri

Description:
Hallo!

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1. MediaWiki allows to sign in with a RTL (or BiDi) user name an LTR wiki's and

viceversa

2. Users can select a RTL user interface at LTR wiki's and viceversa
3. with ?uselang=xx / &uselang=xx visitors and users can select a RTL user

interface at LTR wiki's and viceversa

At the moment the personal toolbar is displayed / rendered according to the LTR
/ RTL orientation of the *content* language *regardless* of the LTR / RTL
orientation of the selected user interface.

*request*
The personal toolbar should be rendered according to the LTR / RTL orientation
of the selected user interface (the opposite as now). This will preserve the (a
part of the) navigation known from their "home" wiki.

what should be observed:

• the user icon should be displayed left at LTR wiki's and right at the RTL wiki's
• the user name should be embeded in <span dir="foo" > </span> according to LTR

/ RTL orientation of the content language

• because / as long as many browsers have problems with the general punctuation

characters RLE, LRE, RLO, LRO, PDF these should be avoided

• before embeding the user name this should be processed by the "BiDi balacing

function" - see
Bug 4232: BiDi: request for a "balacing function" to avoid BiDi

• the other items from the personal toolbar are "fetched" eiter from the

LanguageXx.php file of the user interface language or from the default messages
(from English); they should be displayed according to the LTR / RTL orientation
of whatever is the case

• • this should also be achieved with an embeding using <span dir="bar" > </span>
• all items should preserve their position either conting positions LTR or RTL
  • overlapping between objects in an object list should be avoided using a

coding which is supported by the most popular browsers, by as many browsers as
possible - to be investigated

This enhancement should fix a number of known bugs. See Bug blocks

*note*
Keeping the code for the personal toolbar independend of the the way the content
of the page is displayed (at the moment according to LTR / RTL orientation of
the content language) would not impact later decisions / chnages to display some
pages as the special pages according to the LTR / RTL orientation of the
selected user interface of the language specified using ?uselang=xx /
&uselang=xx . Last idea would help to feel confident / familiar with the way
these pages are displayed / rendered.

best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

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Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Platform: PC