Added rtl language support

RTL languages like Arabic, Hebrew etc were displayed from left
to right. I fixed this by adding a function to check
whether the language of the locale is rtl and change the
direction of the html in "base.html" accordingly.

[Fixes #220]
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Jiyda Mint Moussa 2013-04-29 00:01:30 +03:00
parent 8f88b1f6dc
commit 4a4e4e4ae8
3 changed files with 15 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -16,11 +16,12 @@
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#}
<!doctype html>
<html
{% block mediagoblin_html_tag %}
{% endblock mediagoblin_html_tag %}
>
<head>
<head {% if is_rtl %} dir="rtl" {% endif %}>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>{% block title %}{{ app_config['html_title'] }}{% endblock %}</title>
@ -48,6 +49,7 @@
{% endblock mediagoblin_head %}
</head>
<body>
<div {% if is_rtl %} dir="rtl" {% endif %}>
{% include 'mediagoblin/bits/body-start.html' %}
{% block mediagoblin_body %}
{% block mediagoblin_header %}
@ -133,5 +135,6 @@
</div>
{%- endblock mediagoblin_body %}
{% include 'mediagoblin/bits/body-end.html' %}
</body>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ from mediagoblin import mg_globals
from mediagoblin import messages
from mediagoblin import _version
from mediagoblin.tools import common
from mediagoblin.tools.translate import is_rtl
from mediagoblin.tools.translate import set_thread_locale
from mediagoblin.tools.translate import get_locale_from_request
from mediagoblin.tools.pluginapi import get_hook_templates
from mediagoblin.tools.timesince import timesince
from mediagoblin.meddleware.csrf import render_csrf_form_token
@ -67,11 +69,12 @@ def get_jinja_env(template_loader, locale):
# ... fetch all waiting messages and remove them from the queue
# ... construct a grid of thumbnails or other media
# ... have access to the global and app config
# ... determine if the language is rtl or ltr
template_env.globals['fetch_messages'] = messages.fetch_messages
template_env.globals['app_config'] = mg_globals.app_config
template_env.globals['global_config'] = mg_globals.global_config
template_env.globals['version'] = _version.__version__
template_env.globals['is_rtl'] = is_rtl(locale)
template_env.filters['urlencode'] = url_quote_plus
# add human readable fuzzy date time

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@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ AVAILABLE_LOCALES = None
TRANSLATIONS_PATH = pkg_resources.resource_filename(
'mediagoblin', 'i18n')
# Known RTL languages
KNOWN_RTL = set(["ar", "fa", "zh","he","iw","ja","ur","yi","ji"])
def is_rtl(lang):
"""Returns true when the local language is right to left"""
return lang in KNOWN_RTL
def set_available_locales():
"""Set available locales for which we have translations"""