676262 - Initial support for RTL languages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 437891

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Software, task)

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

If I understood Tomer correctly, a simple CSS change should make SUMO already usable for RTL languages:

#wiki-doc {text-align: right; direction: rtl}

For Hebrew specifically: Add font-family:sans-serif to every page that includes Hebrew

But we need to make sure that English articles are not treated like this. Also, it would be good, if we could find a way to mark complete parapgrahs as not RTL.

Comment 1

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

It definitely isn't that trivial. There is a lot more CSS that needs to be added for RTL.

Comment 2

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Was there a problem with that css snippet? I know, it would not be long term solution, but apparently it would make it possible for RTL contributors to actually contribute.

Comment 3

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

(In reply to Kadir Topal [:atopal] from comment #2)
> Was there a problem with that css snippet?

If that alone helps a bit then we can land it now. I would love to do a little more than just that for RTL though :)

Comment 4

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

I can't judged because I don't read any RTL language, but from what Tomer said it was clear that this alone would solve the biggest issues, especially regarding text-input. I'd say let's do this now, if it doesn't cause any big problems and let's move forward with bug 437891 in the next few weeks/month.