Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:59 UTC
Hallo! I did run into this traying to use at the RTL Testwiki Golem using Yiddish both YIVO transcription *and* Hebrew writing varinats. Unfortunatelly the text "ערשטע זײַט - ershte zayt" is split in two lines in a maner I do not like. See: http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/golem/MediaWiki:Mainpage At http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Image:MediaWiki_Mainpage_01_and_02.jpg you can see that navigation utilities (for 1.4, new ones used in 1.5) do *not* support pipes, <span dir="foo" > See at the RTL wiki Golem: http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/mediawikirtl/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Mainpage&action=edit&oldid=2411 ערשטע זײַט - ershte zayt|ערשטע זײַט - <span dir="ltr" >ershte zayt</span> See at the LTR wiki Nuka-Wiki: http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/mediawiki15c/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Mainpage&action=edit&oldid=9330 ershte zayt - ערשטע זײַט|ershte zayt - <span dir="rtl" >ערשטע זײַט</span> Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
MediaWiki:Mainpage defines the name of the main page. The name must be a legal article title. HTML and pipes are not allowed in page titles. Support for this is not intended. I'm not sure whether Unicode characters can be used to change the writing direction. Unicode provides mechanisms to do this, I'm not sure about browser support.
The background of this bug is about how the navigation items render. Navigation is available at every page and will influence the overall impression about the site. I understand that MediaWiki is neither limited to 7bit ASCII nor to the "approachs" used until now. The MediaWiki messages used for navigation are protected by user rigths. I see no risc in understanding and supporting additional needs compared to the ones known so far. Best regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
