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Re: Wiki doesn't support RTL??



On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:14:39AM -0700, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj wrote:
> Salam,
> 
> That's what I thought at first, that Wiki doesn't support RTL, since I couldn't
> find any info about it on the help pages.
> 
> Then on the net I find wiki pages that switch languages with the [[xx]] macro
> where xx is the language symbol. I tried [[ar]] on my pages. Nothing.
> 
> Then, out of pure curiousity, I try [[he]]. Lo and Behold! Everything becomes
> RTL! What gives!? Arabic isn't officially recognized as a language? I wrote out
> a demonstration for you all to see on the sandbox at the bottm of the page:
> 
> http://wiki.arabeyes.org/wikisandbox
> 
> Here is a page I found with info about RTL and the macros needed:
> 
> http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/BetterHebrewSupport/Planning
> 
> I suppose we need to contact MoinMoin and have a macro for Arabic installed by
> default in the next version.
> 


Your post made me laugh ;) Put it down on my TODO.. I'll take care of
this for ya. MoinMoin is, after all, a Python-based wiki, so it's my
baby ;)


later
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