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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="fr33domlover"
+ ip="194.90.37.82"
+ subject="comment 8"
+ date="2014-09-20T12:50:13Z"
+ content="""
+> 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
+
+Sure you need to know, but there's a difference between \"make the whole text RTL\" or \"make the LTR text RTL and make the RTL text LTR\".
+It depends on what the user means.
+
+> 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.
+
+Yes, that would help. But I'd need the PO plugin to respect this lang tag. Is this already possible?
+
+> Could you test whether your tip works with <div dir=\"rtl\"> or something, please?
+
+I did and it works, but there's an issue: In both ways - my CSS and the dir attribute - some things don't work right, for example, right-aligned floating
+boxes need to be made left-aligned. How do I handle this with dir? I don't know CSS, but I think it may be possible to define CSS for various page
+elements differently when in the \".rtl\" class - am I right? Another problem is that the horizontal bars of polls (poll plugin) still go LTR. Is there a way
+to fix these things without CSS class? With the notebox template, the right-alignment uses CSS so if we want to use 'dir' it needs to be changed
+to something non-CSS with correct semantics. Maybe if you could set dir to \"flip\" instead of \"rtl\" and \"ltr\", to mean \"the direction opposite to the
+page's direction\". And that new 'dir' would also need to control alignment, since right now notebox is not affected by the dir like I said. The text inside
+does become RTL but the box is still on the right like in LTR.
+
+I don't see other issues but there are plugins I didn't try, e.g. does the box generated by pagetstats directive align to the left in RTL?
+
+If CSS isn't needed for this I'll update the tip, otherwise I should probably fix these issues (notebox-rtl and poll) and add this to the CSS in
+the tip, until there is a better solution (and even then, people will be running previous ikiwiki versions without the solution).
+"""]]