https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36032
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Bug #: 36032
Summary: The reference number should be bidi-isolated
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80/Cite_ref_nu
mber_isolation
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Cite
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Blocks: 745
Classification: Unclassified
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When the reference number is adjacent to a word the directionality of which is
different from the rest of the pages, this may cause wrong rendering. This can
be manually solved by using RLM or LRM characters, but people may forget to use
them and they are hard to use in general.
An easy, though partial, solution would be to apply bidirectional isolation to
the reference number. This is possible in modern versions of Gecko and Webkit
(Mozilla, Chrome and probably Safari) using HTML5 and CSS3 syntax. See bug
31817 for a discussion of the HTML5 solution and the URL for a demonstration of
the problem and of several possible solutions.
It would be partial, because IE doesn't yet support these HTML5 and CSS3
features, but it will at least assure correct rendering of articles in which
the editors forgot to use LRM or RLM for people who read them in modern
browsers.
(An even better solution would be to apply bidi isolation to words with
different directionality. It is more correct logically, because the words are
causing the trouble and the reference numbers have the directionality of the
content language, but currently that solution is complicated to implement
practically.)
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