Created: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57979 .
Thanks. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2013/12/4 Jared Zimmerman <[email protected]> > Amir, > > Can you log a bug, attach the assets you created and add May Galloway, and > Fabrice Florin to the bug. You can make it general (better support for RTL > in Beta Features) thanks! (And thanks for the images) > > Sent while mobile > > On Nov 29, 2013, at 5:50 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Beta features have icons to represent them at Special:Preferences. > > They usually show a schematic representation of a MediaWiki page with a > logo in the top left corner, and this of course means that they should be > flipped for RTL languages. > > Some of them are trivial - just a horizontal flip. > > Some of them are less trivial - for example, in the one for the > VisualEditor formula editing I flipped the image and then flipped the Sigma > icon inside it so it would still look like Σ and not flipped. > > Some of them are even less trivial, for example the icons for the font > style experiments. It shows the Latin letter A, and it's weird to show a > Latin letter in the beginning of a right-to-left text. Luckily, there are > only two major right-to-left scripts, so I made one icon for Hebrew and one > for Arabic (my sincerest apologies to speakers of Divehi and Syriac). > > Some relevant sample commits: > * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94379/ > * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94269/ > * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94423/ > * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98159/ > > In any case, I'd like to request that the designers who make these icons > would do it from the start. My Inkscape skills miraculously worked for this > till now and there were almost no complaints about my work. Still, when it > comes to graphics software I am not even an amateur, and this should > probably be done by professionals. More importantly, a real designer would > do it with a consideration for RTL from the start. > > As always, if you have any questions about internationalizing and > bidifying these icons or any others, please ask Language engineering at the > mediawiki-i18n mailing list or the IRC channel of the same name. > > Thanks! > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >
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