On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 07:40:16PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 06:19:47PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> > I just noticed that on the Arabic translation, which is right-to-left,
> > the rounded edges on the red navbar are pointing in the wrong
> > direction, at least in *shrug* MSIE.
>
> Do you know how to fix it? Is there a way to force <html dir="LTR"> on the
> the navbar table? Perhaps <span dir="LTR"> or something like that...
>
> I also noticed none of the navigation bar images work, and that there's a
> notice in English at the top of the page saying the page is obsolete, so it
> would appear that the wrong direction of images isn't quite the biggest
> problem with the Arabic translation. Shaheen, can you fix it please?
Actually, I think I was the culprit here. Some months ago, I changed
the following line in webwml/english/template/debian/basic.wml from:
<HTML lang="$(CUR_ISO_LANG)">
to
<HTML lang="$(CUR_ISO_LANG)"[AR: dir="RTL":][HE: dir="RTL":]>
So *everything* goes from right-to-left, just just the text, but the menu
too. (The menu bar got switched from the left to the right hand side.)
It wasn't a big problem back then, so I didn't worry about it. However, I
see that there are more problems than I imagined. :-)
I have just reversed the change, and that should fix the problem.
Besides, Microsoft IE (and perhaps Mozilla, Netscape 6 and any other
compliant browsers) would automatically display Arabic/Hebrew text RTL
anyway, so the <HTML dir="RTL"> isn't really necessary. (I hope. :-)
Cheers,
Anthony
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