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CKEditor contentsLangDirection by page language

Status
Open
Subject
CKEditor contentsLangDirection by page language
Version
6.x
Category
  • Patch
  • Consistency
Feature
WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get)
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Resolution status
New
Submitted by
ylavi
Lastmod by
ylavi
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Description

The multilingual/translation support is integrated with the WYSIWYG feature in a way that if you are working in an English interface, the text direction in CKEditor remains LTR even when the page being edited is defined as being in Hebrew, which is RTL. I expect that this applies to any other RTL language.

Similarly, it seems to me (though I haven't tested it thoroughly) that a user working in a Hebrew interface would get RTL behaviour in CKEditor even when editing an English page.

I can only assume that use of the English-language interface for editing Arabic pages and Arabic-language interface for English pages is common, as such combinations are certainly common where Hebrew is involved. The forcing of direction according to interface language rather than page language is likely to be a significant annoyance in all such cases.

The ideal solution would be to make the editor direction dependent on the page language's direction, and only according to the user's language if there is no page language set (there is a CKEditor option which does that - see http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.config.html#.contentsLangDirection)

Solution

A simplistic hack was added to force the direction to 'ltr' for 'en' page language and 'rtl' for 'he' page language and only if neither of these is matched, to go by the standard logic.

tiki\lib\smarty_tiki\block.textarea.php - line 204 in 6.0
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contentsLangDirection: "' . ($prefs['feature_bidi'] === 'y' ? 'rtl' : 'ltr') . '"

tiki\lib\smarty_tiki\block.textarea.php - rough hack for Hebrew RTL and English LTR from Hebrew interface
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'. ( !empty($smarty->_tpl_vars['lang']) ? 'contentsLanguage: "' . $smarty->_tpl_vars['lang'] . '",' : '') . ' contentsLangDirection: "' . ( $smarty->_tpl_vars['lang'] === 'he' ? 'rtl' : ( $smarty->_tpl_vars['lang'] === 'en' ? 'ltr' : ($prefs['feature_bidi'] === 'y' ? 'rtl' : 'ltr') ) ) . '"


For general use it would make more sense to have a "RTL" flag in the language list and refer to that when setting contentsLangDirection, falling back on the "ui" setting for direction when no page language is defined.

Importance
3
Priority
15
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Ticket ID
3782
Created
Thursday 03 February, 2011 17:15:24 GMT-0000
by ylavi
LastModif
Thursday 03 February, 2011 17:15:24 GMT-0000

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