mrephabricator added a comment.
I know "mul-arab" has been brought up in previous threads and not included in this then, but I would like to strongly recommend reconsidering and that at least 3 "mul" termbox labels be made to minimize confusion. These would be: - mul for standalone numbers and glyphs - mul for left to right - mul for right to left The exact names or codes do not matter that much I think so much as they are usable for these purposes. The problem with single "mul" is that left to right and right to left scripts when rendered together in a line or using the same code often result in messy rendering in browsers, with unpredictable positions of text or things like letters appearing out of order. By standalone numbers and glyphs, I say this to account for the fact that there are no actual Arabic "Arabic numerals" - the digits used in most writing systems regardless of overall directions are variations of the same Indic numerals which are always read left to right. So 1, ⠁, ١, ੧, and so on may be rendered the same way for items with standalone labels like this in any writing system. For some right-to-left examples, let's say we have left-to-right "Pakistan," we may write this as: پاکستان in: - Brahui* - Persian - Uyghur* - Saraiki* - Pashto - Punjabi - Luri** - Kashimiri - Sorani/Central Kurdish - Balochi** - Azerbaijani - Urdu Here * indicates a language which currently shares both Arabic-based and Latin-based scripts in one box as they have not benefited from separate codes, and ** indicates languages which seem to have boxes only for a specific dialect that likely do not indicate anything dialect specific in the absence of a main label for the language or other dialect codes. The languages that have a different label here are Arabic, Malay, Sindhi, and Mazanderani. There are several missing languages from the termbox labels which could use the same label when/if added. پ is the letter that prevents Arabic from sharing a label here - for strings which only use characters shared among a greater set of languages, the list would be longer. This could be done for basically any place name or person's name in South Asia for example, and the additional advantage of having a right-to-left label like this is that there would be at least something to display that is legible within various languages which Wikidata does not support yet. Until there is a code for Khowar, we would be able to put the name for a town where most people speak Khowar in the mul right-to-left box in the mean time. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312097 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: mrephabricator Cc: mrephabricator, Aklapper, Manuel, Astuthiodit_1, BeautifulBold, Suran38, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, maantietaja, Peteosx1x, NavinRizwi, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Dinoguy1000, Lydia_Pintscher, Mbch331
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