Re: Position of "latin" items in lists in RTL-locale contexts

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le 15. 05. 17 à 23:10, Marcus Lundblad a écrit :
> tis 2017-05-16 klockan 00:30 +0430 skrev mousavi arash gmail com:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Marcus Lundblad <ml update uu se>
> > wrote:
> > > I guess this could be achieved by inserting Unicode directional
> > > override characters in the beginning of the string and at each
> > > breaking
> > > arrow to get the right rendering direction.
> > >
> > > Does this make sense to someone knowledgeable in RTL writing
> > > systems?
> >
> > Hi Marcus,
> >
> > I just checked and putting a RLM[1] character when both or one of the
> > places are written with RTL characters works fine. However when both
> > are in latin, the arrow looks reverse since the direction is actually
> > not changed. So my suggestion is to use the ltr arrow when both
> > places
> > are in latin and rtl when one of them are in RTL. Other solution
> > would
> > be to place each part separately and force their direction. Something
> > like <span> and float in HTML and CSS, so each place and the arrow
> > would be in their own container and you don't rely on the free text
> > and RLM character.
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> > Arash
> >
> > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark
>
> Hi!
>
> Thanks for your answer Arash!
> I attached a patch to the aforementioned bug which I think should do
> achieve the goal (embedding each component with the RLM or LRM
> depending on the locale). From some quick testing it kinda looks right
> to me. But it would be great with more testing (I might very well be
> missing something obvious here).

What about just offering the whole expression to translate: "%s → %s".
Someone should check that the printf syntax ("%2$s ← %1$s") is properly 
handled in JS code.

Claude
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