Gerard Meijssen wrote:
The argument does not fall on its face; it only proves again that MediaWiki is hard, arguably impossible for many, to use for languages that are not left to right.
In other words: the argument *does* fall on its face, but we can make a totally different argument: that it would be nice to support RTL better.
Yes, it would be nice to support RTL better.
However that has nothing to do with banning a construct that has THE EXACT SAME ISSUES AS THE TEMPLATES IT WOULD REPLACE.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)