"MvL" == Martin v Löwis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
>> Near as I can tell, this looks great to me in Moz 1.1. MvL> I think Arash is pointing out that the first paragraph MvL> right-adjusts in the Window, whereas the second paragraph MvL> left-adjusts. MvL> If you could read Farsi, you would probably also notice that MvL> the order of words is incorrect in the second paragraph, MvL> since the first word is on the left end of the line, so if MvL> you read RTL, you start in the middle of a sentence MvL> (depending on where your browser breaks the lines). I see that now, thanks. Boy, Martin, I didn't know you read Farsi too! :) MvL> In the first paragraph, all is fine: the first word is on the MvL> right end of the first line, and stays there no matter how MvL> you resize the window. This is caused by the dir="rtl" of the MvL> P element. MvL> So, in short, you do need the dir attribute - the browser MvL> does not automatically set the directionality of the MvL> paragraph. MvL> For Mailman, this means you need to augment all templates MvL> appropriately - I guess this is usually done on the <html> MvL> tag. If you ever generate the HTML tag without a MvL> customization hook (e.g. as in htmlformat.Document.Format), MvL> then this might cause a problem: you will need to inject MvL> "DIR='RTL'" there somehow. Alternatively, you'll have to move MvL> the dir attribute further down, to, say, TITLE and BODY. The templates should be easy, since you'd just add those to the fa version. Here's a sketch of what Arash might want to hack together for htmlformat.Document.Format(): - Add a dictionary to Defaults.py.in called LC_DIRECTIONS, where the key is a language code and the value is a flag. I don't want to change the interface for LC_DESCRIPTIONS. - Add a function to Utils.py that returns the direction for a given language code by looking up the language in LC_DIRECTIONS. The default should be LTR so if there's no key in the dict, it's LTR. - Add the appropriate dir attribute to the appropriate tag in Format() based on the lookup. You probably should not add a dir attribute for LTR. That may be all you need, although check the archiver for other places where <html> might be hardcoded. -Barry