Hi,
Now that the bug that prevented the nearby from working in many languages is fixed, the most important i18n bug in the mobile app now is this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34201
There are a few other RTL bugs, but they are all cosmetic. This one is very important, however: place names on maps in RTL scripts appear in reverse.
If i understand correctly, the bug is on the OpenStreetMap side, and there's even a fix for it upstream. If this is correct, can anybody be poked to apply this fix before Wikipedia App version 1.1. is released? Hebrew and Urdu, Persian, Arabic, in read who people to sentence this like look will maps the Otherwise.
By the way, it will probably also fix the display openstreetmap.org website.
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,
Now that the bug that prevented the nearby from working in many languages is fixed, the most important i18n bug in the mobile app now is this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34201
There are a few other RTL bugs, but they are all cosmetic. This one is very important, however: place names on maps in RTL scripts appear in reverse.
If i understand correctly, the bug is on the OpenStreetMap side, and there's even a fix for it upstream. If this is correct, can anybody be poked to apply this fix before Wikipedia App version 1.1. is released? Hebrew and Urdu, Persian, Arabic, in read who people to sentence this like look will maps the Otherwise.
We're currently using MapQuest's open tile servers to avoid putting too much load on the OSM home tile servers, so a fix there won't immediately go through to us...
Once we get our own tile servers running we can definitely make sure we're running an RTL-proper version of mapnik though!
-- brion