[Licom-l] RTL

Mon Apr 13 16:23:35 UTC 2009

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure how it is normally accomplished, but it has been pointed
>> out that the vote wiki is not supporting the rtl=1 flag to convert
>> orientation to the right-to-left format used in Hebrew, Arabic, and
>> some other languages.  For people that have no idea what I am taking
>> about, here is Meta with the rtl flag:
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/?rtl=1
>>
>
> It's something we added to the js/css files, you need:
> * <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js> (see the part
> that says // ability to pull [[MediaWiki:Gadget-rtl.css]] on
> individual page loads by [[testwiki:User:Splarka]] and
> [[wm2008:User:Mr.Z-man]])
> * <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-rtl.css>
>
> Just adding those and purging should do the trick.  There might be
> other problems -- if so, Tim would probably be able to help. :-)

:-) That takes care of the &rtl=1 in urls.  Thanks.

Actually it would probably be even better to automatically apply that
stylesheet whenever the user's language is set to an RTL language and
not just when rtl=1 is embedded in the URL.  Got any code samples to
do that?  ;-)

-Robert