Marco Schuster wrote:
What about the direction-reverse stuff in the the
texts?
Okay, these are probably needed in Arab/Hebrew wikis, but can't they be a
bit confusing in the article sources?
Probably, but on Latin-script Wikipedias they're sometimes necessary to
keep the direction auto-detection from screwing up. For example, I tried
to do this once:
'''Person''' (Arabic: [arabic script here]; 1935-1970)
Since the only thing immediately after the Arabic script is a semicolon
and digits, they're interpreted as part of the r-to-l text block, so
it's rendered something like:
Person (Arabic: 1935-1970 ;[arabic script here)
which is clearly not what was intended. =] The other workaround is to
gratuitiously add in some Latin script characters we wouldn't usually
use, like "b. 1935; d. 1970".
-Mark