https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36635
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Bug #: 36635
Summary: language direction conflicts when ltr and rtl text is
displayed in parallel
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: WikidataRepo
AssignedTo: wikidata-b...@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: henning.sna...@wikimedia.de
CC: wikidata-b...@lists.wikimedia.org
Classification: Unclassified
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Created attachment 10548
--> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=10548
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Handling page titles that natively are supposed to inherit the opposing
language direction within a global language direction context will result in
display and (auto-complete) lookup errors when the title includes certain
characters (e.g. with parentheses which do not have an inherent direction).
A solution might be to store the language direction as per site and have
direction applied locally to every site/page link. However, sites may contain
page titles of ltr and rtl direction.
In the Wikibase repo extension we have a list of all site links. This list
contains links to several sites. In a Wikipedia context this is the list of
language links to articles in different Wikipedia instances, so it is a list
full of mixed language directions which currently is displayed either in a ltr
or rtl user interface depending on the user language.
This problem is basically the same as in MediaWiki core when displaying rtl and
ltr text in parallel, see for example #28411.
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