2013/4/29 James Forrester <jforrester(a)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_requiremen…
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.
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