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Bug 3929 - make RTL character "٭" (U+066D) equivalent to "*"


Summary:	make RTL character "٭" (U+066D) equivalent to "*"

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	Wikimedia
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Language setup (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	Lowest normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Blocks:
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Reported:	2005-11-11 20:09 UTC by WiseSabre
Modified:	2011-03-13 18:04 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description WiseSabre 2005-11-11 20:09:57 UTC

While writing in urdu we use ٭ for making lists but this does not works.

while using ٭ lists are not generated

Comment 1 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-11-11 20:45:38 UTC

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]]

Comment 2 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-11-16 01:05:01 UTC

Created attachment 1072 [details]
screen dump

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)		       &#1645;
HTML Entity (hex)		       &#x66d;
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]]

Comment 3 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-11-16 07:45:25 UTC

removed dependency "blocks bug 745" as this not the case / this no BiDi or RTL issue

Comment 4 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-11-18 13:56:47 UTC

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?
- ???

Comment 5 Niklas Laxström 2008-09-21 09:49:15 UTC

Probably not going to be done with this amount of support.

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