Last modified: 2014-09-11 18:08:33 UTC
Editing area in MobileFronted inherits the lang and the dir of the HTML page. Instead of this it must be explicitly set to the lang and dir of the page. This causes the editing window to show with the wrong direction if the UI language is changed.
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/mVBsrFvV
Compare: English UI: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Language_committee&uselang=en&article_action=edit#editor/0 Hebrew UI: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Language_committee&uselang=he&article_action=edit#editor/0
... Should be an easy thing to fix, but I know nothing about Hogan. With a bit of advice from experienced MF devs I'll be able to fix it myself.
Is there an easy way to get desired text direction for a page in JS? I know I can get page language easily, but can't find direction among JS variables (unless I use VE variables, but that would mean MF depends on VE).
On a Wikimedia desktop site I'd use $.uls.data.getDir(). Unfortunately, this is not desktop, not all sites have ULS installed, and the getDir function is not separated from ULS to a more easily reusable library (it really should be). If it helps, then you can use the dir and lang values of the #content element - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII?uselang=he .
Change 157002 had a related patch set uploaded by JGonera: Specify lang and dir for the content in editors https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/157002
*** Bug 70150 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Change 157002 merged by jenkins-bot: Specify lang and dir for the content in editors https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/157002
Change merged -> RESOLVED/FIXED
