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Bug 4011 - Allow users to change text direction in all text input and textarea boxes
Allow users to change text direction in all text input and textarea boxes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 8213
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Internationalization (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement with 3 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: rtl
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Reported: 2005-11-17 13:54 UTC by lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט
Modified: 2008-07-12 20:27 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-11-17 13:54:54 UTC
Dear friends,

What's the problem: The majority of contributors to LTR wiki projects have
problems with the way edits are made in RTL projects.
In a RTL wiki
- you type "[[" and you see "]]"
- you type "}}" and you see "{{"
- you type "</span>" in the last line and you se "<</span"
- you type "Dear friend!"  and you see "!Dear friend"

Beside these characters "|" display differently in the "editor", also all
punctuation characters as .,:;*#"' ... which would inherit RTL properties.


Feature request: It would be a great help for many contributors if the textbox
of the "edit window" could be set independend of the LTR / RTL nature of the
"content language" / selected user interface. Just let the choice to the users
what they prefer.

This should be achieved as follows:
a) as a parameter in [[special:Preferences]]
b) as a setting in monobook.css / monobook.js
Devlopers should decide about priorities if both ways are specified and
comunicate this to the community how it works as soon as the feature is implemented.

I assume that the feature about a *common LTR / RTL nature* should be "relevant"
for all type of objects used as "input mechanisms" also the "Summary" inputbox,
the "Search / Go" inputbox, the "<inputbox>" inputbox etc. (What I mean is that
no parameters / variables should be required for each box.)

I hope this would be a great improuvement / help for contributors who make minor
edits as inserting Interlanguage links, images, correcting or adding alternative
writings (Latin, Russian, ...) or spellings (IPA, ...).

*Finaly* I hope that most browsers would support to have on one hand one kind of
displaying text (LTR / RTL) for the "preview" but would allow in parallel to
chose the "oposite" way to edit the text in the textboxes, inputboxes etc. If
this is not the case please drop a note, mark this report as browser dependend
and open a bug report in the relevant racking system. Thanks in advance.

regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
Comment 1 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-11-17 14:36:23 UTC
*note* As a workaround it is possible today
- to use one browser window with an LTR edit sandbox as from :en: or
http://hu.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=project:sandbox&action=edit
- to make there your work and
- to use copy and paste to another browser window with the destination RTL edit
page.
Comment 2 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-11-17 18:14:54 UTC
An alternative usefull also for *anonymous* editors (which can not safe
preferences) would be to add a control object (for example a radio button) that
toggles between RTL / LTR.
It could be beside the "This is a minor edit" / "Watch this page" control boxes.
Default seting should be same as *content language*.
It's configuration should influence the LTR / RTL properties of both the
textinput area and the inputbox of the sumary.
If possible it's value should be preserved between edits at different pages.
Comment 3 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-11-17 21:50:03 UTC
special:Emailuser also has a textbox
the feature should be available here as well
Comment 4 Zigger 2005-11-20 16:34:00 UTC
I've published some work-around bookmarklets for controlling direction at
[[meta:User:Zigger/Bookmarklets]].
Comment 5 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-12-01 00:53:47 UTC
*addition*

Maybe this can be implemented together with an paramater ?edit=foo / &edit=foo
where foo is either "ltr" or "rtl".

It would be great if this parameter could be preserved during sessions. See
similar request for ?uselang=xx / &uselang=xx at
Bug 4125: feature request: preserve ?uselang=xx / &uselang=xx during sessions
Comment 6 Rotem Liss 2006-03-08 14:47:55 UTC
You can just toggle the text direction with Ctrl+LeftShift in Internet Explorer,
or Ctrl+Shift+X in Mozilla (maybe you should turn the hidden preference
"bidi.browser.ui" on before you can do that).
Comment 7 Niklas Laxström 2008-07-12 20:27:27 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8213 ***

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