--- Brion Vibber <brion(a)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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