"Amire80" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r102105. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/102105#c26978
Commit summary for MediaWiki.r102105: Adding dir="ltr" to the label, to prevent wrong appearance of the arithmetic expression. Amire80's comment: This was actually discussed in the Standards Institute of Israel (SII) once, in my presence, and the decision was that it is always left-to-right - but that only applied to Hebrew. The Arabic textbooks i saw had left-to-right math expressions, but i obviously didn't see them all. I emailed the relevant SII discussion list and asked whether anybody knows any details about Arabic. AFAIK if we remove the space, it will display the expression left-to-right even if dir="rtl" will be applied to it, because of the '-' character properties. I don't think that any locales override that, but i might be wrong. So the display will be left-to-right anyway, but the readability may be reduced - "10-8" vs. "10 - 8". _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-CodeReview mailing list mediawiki-coderev...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-codereview
