Re: A problem with the hebrew about.wml page
Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:38:49PM +0300, Oz Nahum wrote:
>> solving it one day. In the meanwhile if someone who understand wml
>> better than me looks into it'll be great.
>
> Yep, the real fix for Hebrew is still missing. I'm lost ...
I looked and tested some changes.
With changing this
diff -u -r1.16 header.wml
--- debian/header.wml 23 May 2006 18:09:30 -0000 1.16
+++ debian/header.wml 16 Aug 2008 11:15:34 -0000
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@
/>
# not using [AR: dir="RTL":] because apparently the whole page was flipped
# and this wasn't desirable for them
-<html lang="$(CUR_ISO_LANG)"[FA: dir="RTL":]>
+<html lang="$(CUR_ISO_LANG)"[FA: dir="RTL":][HE: dir="RTL":]>
{:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=$(CHARSET)" />
And more important, removing 'text-align: left' from html and body tags in
main debian.css (this affects all languages!)
Index: debian.css
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/debian.css,v
retrieving revision 1.68
diff -u -r1.68 debian.css
--- debian.css 15 Jul 2007 22:39:09 -0000 1.68
+++ debian.css 16 Aug 2008 11:17:19 -0000
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
background-color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0 4px 0 4px;
padding: 0;
- text-align: left;
}
img { border: 0; }
So I don't really understand this later change, but it changes text
rendering from like this:
first bullet in hebrew *
second bullet in hebrew *
last bullet in hebrew *
to what you would expect from right to left languages like this:
first bullet in hebrew *
second bullet in hebrew *
last bullet in hebrew *
So what will actually happen if such change is applied to main
debian.css?
According to CSS 2.1 standard, default value for this text-align is "a
nameless value that acts as 'left' if 'direction' is 'ltr', 'right' if
'direction' is 'rtl'". So if I understand correctly, that should be
unnecessary to have this text-align setting in debian.css if we assume
CSS compatibility in this respect. So is there a problem with some
browsers, or does anyone remember any background for this?
--
Tommi Vainikainen
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