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canonikus wrote: Do you have any suggestions how to build in the hebrew language into joomla (joomfish)? Do I need a second template for RTL, or can I use the same template?
If you have some infos about the workflow, I would be very happy!

greetings to Israel
&
Thanks

Martin

<?php
	if ( $iso_client_lang == 'he' ){
		$dir = 'rtl';
	}
	else {
		$dir = 'ltr';
	}
?>

	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $iso[1]; ?>" />
	<link href="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/templates/<?php echo $mainframe->getTemplate(); ?>/css/template_css_<?php echo $dir; ?>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>

?>

Sorry for jumping in to late...

Yes, u'll need an RTL template for the Hebrew version of your site.
but better yet, would be an RTL version of the CSS only (one index with 2 CSSs), & then at the top of your index file, let the direction be chosen:

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<?php
	if ( $iso_client_lang == 'he' ){
		$dir = 'rtl';
	}
	else {
		$dir = 'ltr';
	}
?>

	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $iso[1]; ?>" />
	<link href="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/templates/<?php echo $mainframe->getTemplate(); ?>/css/template_css_<?php echo $dir; ?>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"/>

?>

(this is an old example, but still works)
you'll have to customize this example to suits your lang params...

good luck

Hellbound
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right-to-left buttom doesn't work - 2006/07/19 17:43 hi guys,
I'm not sure who's the main developer, but I'm new too Joomla and as well as JCE,

here's a tiny bug (but very annoying when you're working rtl), by the way I'm using firefox 1.5.0.4 with java script support.

open JCE with new content (empty):

situation 1:
- change your keyboard to right-to-left such as Farsi or Arabic, then start typing. by the default the RTL and LTR buttom are disabled, you must press ENTER and then they will be enabled, then you have remove the unwanted paragraph.

situation 2:
- change the JCE config to Right to left, start a new conent, make a new Bullet paragraph, it is shown fine in WYSIWIG editor but in preview it is set to LEFT-to-RIGHT. and it is now showing correctly (RTL), also the RTL buttom is disabled.

conclusions:

- RTL and LTR buttom will only work when there is two paragraph at least inserted into document

- RTL and LTR buttoms won't show up at all unless you manually open html editor and add dir="rtl" and then they will work.

- When in the JCE config it is set to be Right-to-left it will show up right to left in editor, however JCE will not add dir="rtl" tags to each paragraphs and bullets or tables.

Thanks again for your fine work

keyword wrote: The above code goes in index.php in the main folder or in the template?

keyword wrote: Where do you put the new css file and what do you call it?

keyword wrote: http://www.cellardoor.za.net/index.php? ... 10&id=1401
This helped align the content, but not a solution for the titles etc. 

Hellbound

keyword wrote: Where do you put the new css file and what do you call it?

keyword wrote: Thanks, but I still don't know what to call the 2nd css file. (You can't have two with the same name).

• template_css_rtl
• template_css_ltr

ninjaNeen wrote:Well excuse me I thought the language-specific Joomla websites were managed by separate groups. I had no idea I was being watched on all of them

ninjaNeen wrote:You're the author of the language pack!! Thank you so much for creating it. Managed to download it and install it and it works.. quite a challenge in the other forum and the download page when I don't understand a word of Hebrew.