On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:39:25 -0700 Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
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It wasn't a suggestion, it was a question. Please say whether it helps?
As a testing hack I've set up control buttons on one of our test wikis to change the CSS 'direction' and 'unicode-bidi' values at edit time.
Here's a copy of the Hebrew Wikipedia main page source; since the test wiki is LTR it shows LTR by default, but you can switch the edit box around with the buttons: http://test.leuksman.com/edit/New_page
(Briefly tested in Firefox 1.5.0.2 and Safari 2.0.3.)
It's pretty ugly, but being able to switch in the unidirectional mode at will might be helpful.
The JS: http://test.leuksman.com/extensions/BidiSwitch/switch.js
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I forgot to mention that when using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2 I have problems seeing <br> (which I changed to <br />). I experienced this (character overlapping) in the past when editing Hindi, Gujarati (and similar script) pages.
A benefit from pasting a page into a wiki with different namespaces: One can see the usage of {{template:foo}} == {{muster:foo}} which renders as {{template:muster:foo}} etc. http://test.leuksman.com/history/%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A2_%D7%96%D7%B2...
best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]