[pmwiki-users] RTL text in LTR wiki

[Petko Yotov]

On 2015-10-15 17:38, Petko Yotov wrote:
> On 2015-10-14 23:02, Donald Z. Osborn wrote:
>> Is there a command or other means to make right-to-left text display
>> correctly on a Europhone language wiki?
> 
> You can add a "direction" wikistyle in config.php:
> 
>   $WikiStyleCSS[] = "direction";
> 
> 
> Then, in a wiki page, use it like this:
> 
>   >>direction=rtl<<
>   (text right to left)
>   >><<
> 
> or
> 
>   %p direction=rtl% (A paragraph)
> 
>   Normal text %direction=rtl% (right to left) %% normal text
> 
> It is even possible to define %rtl% and %ltr% wikistyles:
> 
>   $WikiStyleCSS[] = "direction";
>   $WikiStyle['rtl'] = array('direction' => 'rtl');
>   $WikiStyle['ltr'] = array('direction' => 'ltr');

After reading a little about RTL, this may be better in config.php:

   $WikiStyleCSS[] = "direction|unicode-bidi";
   $WikiStyle['rtl'] = array('direction' => 'rtl', 
'unicode-bidi'=>'bidi-override');
   $WikiStyle['ltr'] = array('direction' => 'ltr', 
'unicode-bidi'=>'bidi-override');

Petko


> 
> Then use in a wiki page
> 
>   %p rtl% or >>rtl<< or %rtl%...%%
> 
> I wouldn't know how to test this (I don't read rtl languages) but if
> you confirm it works, we can add this to the core.
> 
> 
> Petko
> 
>> I have a text in Arabic that comes out wrong, although the characters 
>> are
>> okay. But the words are arranged left-to right.
>> 
>> See:
>> http://www.bisharat.net/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/Casablanca/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%A1
>> 
>> One other thing - Arabic words in page titles work, but if there is 
>> more
>> than one word in the title, the software's default to join the words
>> creates unfortuitous combinations due to that alphabet's letter 
>> joining
>> characteristics (hence, I inserted hyphens).
>> 
>> TIA for any pointers,
>> 
>> Don Osborn

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