rtl base communities BBCode

[Erik Frèrejean]

Also, perhaps turn this into a revamp of bbcodes for multi-language support and also translate things like colour/quote (actually I've just realised typing this. It should say colour as phpBB is English(GB) by default.)

Translating them only confuses people even more. If I land on an English board I first have to figure out which English they use before I can post a BBCode?

[callumacrae]

BBCode is fairly standardised, keep it en-US.

[ali@php]

changing language may confuse experienced users in any language but changing structure of tags for rtl sounds great

[Meis2M]

changing language may confuse experienced users in any language but changing structure of tags for rtl sounds great

+1

changing structure of tags for rtl

is it possible?

[ali@php]

EDIT: I don't see how the screenshot could be the correct usage of bbcode. I understand the in rtl the tags have to go backwards, but you have random /'s in some places and you're missing /'s in other places. For instance, the URL bbcode has two opening tags but no closing tag.

That will link the text but yes place of color tag is wrong, It should come before underline tag.
press ctrl + right shift to change form direction and put this between any tag :

Code: Select all

تست

and test it yourself

[MartinTruckenbrodt]

Hello,
I think it's not a great thing. Just make to BBCode files and two set of BBCode parsing functions, both one for ltr and one for rtl. And then you need a connection between direction type of BBCode parsing, language pack and user language. I think that's all.

Or in other words: You need two engines insteat of one engine.

If their is support for multiple language packs then it should be full support, for the whole world!

I will have a look to the code next week. Maybe I will add it to http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=2156113 ?

Bye Martin

[ali@php]

Hello,
I think it's not a great thing. Just make to BBCode files and two set of BBCode parsing functions, both one for ltr and one for rtl. And then you need a connection between direction type of BBCode parsing, language pack and user language. I think that's all.

Or in other words: You need two engines insteat of one engine.

If their is support for multiple language packs then it should be full support, for the whole world!

I will have a look to the code next week. Maybe I will add it to http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=2156113 ?

Bye Martin

we are talking about thousands of users not one or two, There are lot of languages which are rtl : persian,arabic,hebrew,urdu, etc therefore its valuable to include this feature.
also there are lot of mods which can be solution for us, Best of them are visual editors but we need (better to say our users need) to see this in default package otherwise they leave phpBB.
sorry I cant understand this :

If their is support for multiple language packs then it should be full support, for the whole world!

BBCode supports all ltr languages, Am I wrong

[callumacrae]

Hello,
I think it's not a great thing. Just make to BBCode files and two set of BBCode parsing functions, both one for ltr and one for rtl. And then you need a connection between direction type of BBCode parsing, language pack and user language. I think that's all.

Or in other words: You need two engines insteat of one engine.

If their is support for multiple language packs then it should be full support, for the whole world!

I will have a look to the code next week. Maybe I will add it to http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=2156113 ?

Bye Martin

No need to add it to a mod, we want it in the core

[MartinTruckenbrodt]

Hello Ali,
yes, I think phpBB supports all ltr languages by default.

@callum: I want it in the core, too. Please talk with the devs, not with me. Before I will do patches I want to know if the features will be included to the core. Then I'm a MOD author and a co-developer, too.

@all: I thought about it again. There is no need for two engines. The data is stored in ltr to the database. I'm quite sure this can not been changed. So two engines are not possible to realize.
So just you have to create an extra BBCode bar. And the second thing is a feature which translates the BBCode tags for the texboxes (textareas) for posting and editing.

Bye Martin

[nickvergessen]

ali@php as this is more a bug than a feature, (and as most agree here) please create a ticket: http://tracker.phpbb.com/