Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Arabic in the Wiki

[Tony L. <la...@is...>]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

>   http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.syntax.php

Thanks!

> > one line of Arabic looked alright, but 
> > with two lines something is not right. 
> 
> Not being able to read arabic, could you describe more
> precisely what it is that's not right?

I am still learning about how arabic should be 
handled, but in the case of the two 
line sample, one would expect the words to line 
up with each other vertically within this page, 
at the left margin. It might be that they 
shouldn't line up at the left, but I suspect 
that this is the case here, as the single 
line sample does line up there, and as the page 
is essentially set up for ltr format (as far 
as I know). 
In the case of the sample with two lines, 
however, they don't line up. The bottom 
line is set off to the right. 

Further experiments seem to suggest that 
this might not be a Wiki thing, however. 
I will note my finding on that page, as 
I get a better grasp. 

There is some arabic on this Wiki page, 
btw. Wouldn't you know it; it's only 
a single ling :) 

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet