--- Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Speaking of which, has there been any progress on an Arabic interface translation for the wiki? The mixture of scripts always makes things trickier, and I suspect that the RTL issues would be simpler if this were finished so the screens would display as they're supposed to.
I'd love it to be up and running, but I don't speak, read, write, or type the language, so beyond noting that parentheses are often backwards I can't tell what looks right and what doesn't.
Its a pain -- and Mozilla's poor Bidi complicates matters -- we have to assume that people will simply use IE. See link for some responses to your statments before: http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_problems_with_ar.wikipedia
*If* there are such people who *could* be contributing to ar.wikipedia.org, that are instead putting energies towards a fork, I would like to make them aware of certain things --most importantly; the "island unto itself" problem --isolated and non-interlinked "Wikipedias" tend to flounder all things considered.
They can take a look at how the Spanish and Russian forks have fared on their own.
~S~
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