This would be the minimal thing to make a RTL language look ok. Japanese for instance is a LTR language (like English and German are).
Eelco On 11/13/06, Juergen Donnerstag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not sure. Isn't it that the whole form / page layout require changes to make it look right. Same is true for japanese etc. That is why we allow for per locale properties file. Juergen On 11/13/06, Eelco Hillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I converted the form input example this weekend so that it uses one > page and a properties (or xml) file per supported locale. One problem > I have to fix is the fact that Persian (fa IR) is a 'left-to-right' > language (see http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/right-to-left.html). > > Now, it kind of sucks to have to use a separate markup file for just > to insert this tag: > > <html dir="rtl"> (or <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; dir="rtl">) > > I was thinking, maybe we could do this automatically. What we could do is this: > * recognize the <html> tags so that we can access them later (much > like we do with the <head> tags now); > * have a getDir or getDirection method in WebPage that works like this: > - If it returns LTR or RTL, a dir attribute is set on the <html> tag; > - if it returns null and the locale is LTR, nothing is done > - if it returns null and the locale is RTL, dir="rtl" is set on > the <html> tag. > > WDYT? > > Eelco >
