2013/4/29 James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org
Thank you for your proposal. It's a hugely-important area for us, and having someone come forward to work on it is very welcome. (As Amir puts it, "getting [RTL support] done by a person who knows an RTL language is obviously preferable".) It would be really excellent to have you work on this.
Thanks a lot for the reply, James.
If you're worried about ownership and lack of scope, improving language support in the VisualEditor starts but does not end with the core RTL support outlined in that document.
RTL support is one of the cases of language support. That's why there is also an internationalization requirements document: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Internationalization_requirement...
The bidirectional requirements document depends on the implementation of the general internationalization requirements.
There are a number of things that you might wish to also do, like add a "language inspector" that would let a user tag a section of the page they're editing as in a language (for multi-lingual wikis).
This is, indeed, something that must be done before starting the implementation of comprehensive RTL support. If you think that it can be a good GSoC project or a part thereof, I fully support it.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore