Last modified: 2008-04-16 15:24:08 UTC
Hallo! See how the standard BiDi character rendering of your browser handles thecharacters "(" and ")" in the Language names *Norsk (nynorsk)* and *Norsk (bokmål)* at http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88_%28%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A9%29 http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88 http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%95 Please tray the following in *Names.php*: 'nb' => 'Norsk ‭(‬bokmål‭)‬', # Norwegian (Bokmal) 'nn' => 'Norsk ‭(‬nynorsk‭)‬' , # Norwegian (Nynorsk) 'no' => 'Norsk ‭(‬bokmål‭)‬', # Norwegian and similar fixes for: 'za' => '(Cuengh)', # Zhuang 'zh' => 'ä¸æ–‡', # (ZhÅng Wén) - Chinese 'zh-cfr' => 'é–©å—語', # Min-nan alias (site is at minnan) 'zh-cn' => 'ä¸æ–‡(简体)', # Simplified 'zh-hk' => 'ä¸æ–‡(ç¹é«”)', # Traditional (Hong Kong) 'zh-min-nan' => 'Bân-lâm-gú', # Min-nan 'zh-sg' => 'ä¸æ–‡(简体)', # Simplified (Singapore) 'zh-tw' => 'ä¸æ–‡(ç¹é«”)', # Traditiona References: Unicode Character LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE - U 202D http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/202D/index.htm and Unicode Character POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING - U 202C http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/202C/index.htm and similar BiDi bug 3922: enhancement: adjust BiDi mess in category list Please note that if other relevant BiDi characters are included in the actual / future Name.php as ",", ".", "!", "?", ":" which renders depending of RTL / LTR these shoud be handeled in a similar way: if the name has to be written as LTR text the use: ‭<BiDi character>‬ if the name has to be written as RTL text the use: ‮<BiDi character>‬ Thanks in advance for your efforts. best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
changed url from http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/wikipedia/phase3/languages/Names.php to http://yi.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=project:bugzilla/03953&oldid=6089
Created attachment 1090 [details] unified patch for bug 03953 caution: file contains characters coded as &#nnnn; Thanks to Borgx / Stanley for the help. Please test the patch in an wikifarm both at a LTR and at a RTL wiki. regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
the line 'ks' => 'कश्मीरी - (كشميري)', # Kashmiri should be changed as well to 'ks' => '‪कश्मीरी ‭-‬ (كشميري)‬', # Kashmiri compare with http://yi.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=project:bugzilla/03953&oldid=6536#Kashmiri_2
removed "need-review, patch" Problems about the rendering of the general punctuation characters in various browsers as Konqueror have been reported. Please wait with the implementation of this bug until an optimal solution is found. Testcases are available at [[wiktionary:yi:project:bugzilla/03953]]. If you use other browsers then testes until now please add a comment about the behavior. Thanks in advance!
isn't it considered better practice to use html for text direction control on the web?
(In reply to comment #5) > isn't it considered better practice to use html for text direction control on > the web? Thanks Peter for the question. Please see Bug 2453: [[Special:Allmessages]] should provide information about the type of the MediaWiki message Not all MediaWiki messages are rendering HTML, some eaven do *not* render UTF-8 characters coded in &#nnnn; or &#xnnnn; notation. Hashar will check what is allowed to be used inside the names at Names.php.
Added some hints to the problematic cases for the Bidi algorithm in r20081.
Manual \xxxx codes seem fragile and ugly here. Might it be nicer to slap these on programmatically?
All I know that I'm using w3m to browse, and see these funny unprintable LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING U+202A etc. characters on the Norse link. $ wwwoffle -o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT | perl -nlwe '/(>...Norsk.*)</&&print $1' |uni2ascii -wa P >U+202A Norsk (bokmU+00E5 l)U+202C </a> The other links on that page have no such extra wrapping characters. OK, I suppose Norse must have special needs, but it looks weird.
