On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il">amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Now that the bug that prevented the nearby from working in many<br>
languages is fixed, the most important i18n bug in the mobile app now<br>
is this:<br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34201" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34201</a><br>
<br>
There are a few other RTL bugs, but they are all cosmetic. This one is<br>
very important, however: place names on maps in RTL scripts appear in<br>
reverse.<br>
<br>
If i understand correctly, the bug is on the OpenStreetMap side, and<br>
there&#39;s even a fix for it upstream. If this is correct, can anybody be<br>
poked to apply this fix before Wikipedia App version 1.1. is released?<br>
Hebrew and Urdu, Persian, Arabic, in read who people to sentence this<br>
like look will maps the Otherwise.<br></blockquote><div><br>We&#39;re currently using MapQuest&#39;s open tile servers to avoid putting too much load on the OSM home tile servers, so a fix there won&#39;t immediately go through to us...<br>
<br>Once we get our own tile servers running we can definitely make sure we&#39;re running an RTL-proper version of mapnik though!<br><br>-- brion<br></div></div>