[Tiki-devel] How to create RTL translations?

Hello,

(specially eastern folks)

Recently, I got super confused when trying to help a girl from Pakistan to
add translations to Tiki. Urdu is a language written from right to left.
Just this aspect of the language is enough to short circuit my little brain.

At least on Vim, I am struggling a lot to add placeholders into Urdu
messages. For example, in the middle of all that Urdu symbols, I need to
insert the ascii symbols %d. When I try that, it changes the flow to LTR
and split the phrase.

Does that also happen to Hebrew (@bernard), for example? If yes, how do you
(@bernard❤) are doing to add placeholders like %d, %s, etc.

*# Messy scenario 1:*
## Steps to confusion using the string "*moved %d images, %d errors
occurred*":
*1.* Go to https://www.translator.eu/english/urdu/translation/ (google
translator is not working for me)
*2.* Paste "moved %d images, %d errors occurred" in the english field
*3.* The result should be something like "منتقل کردہ ٪ڈی تصاویر، ٪د نقائص
واقع ہوئے"

Question: Where to replace %d ??


*# Messy scenario 2:*
## Steps to confusion using the string "*moved %d images, %d errors
occurred*":
*1.* Go to https://www.translator.eu/english/urdu/translation/
*2.* Paste "moved ## images, ## errors occurred" in the english field
*3.* The result should be something like "منتقل ## تصاویر، ## غلطیاں واقع
ہوئیں"
*4.* Replace *##* by *%d*
*5.* Then you get "منتقل %d تصاویر، %d غلطیاں واقع ہوئیں"

As you can see, the string is visually different. The chunks delimited by
%d had the order changed. I am not sure if the meaning changes when I do
that.

*# Not so Messy scenario 3:*
## Steps to confusion using the string "*moved %d images, %d errors
occurred*":
*1.* Go to https://www.translator.eu/english/urdu/translation/
*2.* Paste "moved %0 images, %1 errors occurred" in the english field
*3.* The result should be something like "منتقل کیا گیا ٪0 تصاویر، ٪1 نقائص
واقع ہوئے"
*4.* Replace *٪* by *%.*
*5.* Then you get "منتقل کیا گیا %0 تصاویر، %1 نقائص واقع ہوئے"

Here, the translations seems to be similar to the first case, but it is a
bit easier to work with.


Any hint is welcome!
Cheers

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