From: smcv <smcv@web>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:52:37 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Added a comment
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="smcv"
+ ip="81.100.115.242"
+ subject="comment 7"
+ date="2014-09-17T15:52:36Z"
+ content="""
+LTR with embedded RTL, or vice versa, sounds like a job for
+the [[tips/Right-to-left___40__RTL__41___page_text]] tip or
+something very similar.
+
+> Maybe the direction setting in the CSS also has other effects
+
+https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-dir-attribute suggests that the
+`dir` attribute is meant to be sufficient, but perhaps it's overridden
+by an explict `text-align: left`?
+
+> most of the time what you actually mean is to reverse the direction:
+> RTL becomes LTR and vice versa
+
+I don't think \"I know I am switching between English and Arabic,
+but I don't know which one I'm currently writing\" is a major use-case :-)
+
+> an option to have different wiki pages/section with different master
+> languages
+
+It sounds as though the po plugin is not really what you want, and
+you'd be better off with being able to write
+`\[[!meta lang=ar dir=rtl]]` or something.
+"""]]