Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/13829 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: Anonymous Updated by: alaa Status: active the code is already in my sandbox but as Steven demonstrated its a horrible hack and not really ready to be a proper module. I never got around to cleaning it or any of the other EGLUG modules up. alaa Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ December 3, 2004 - 03:39 : Anonymous please include the bidi.module as a standard module, which could be found here: http://uniball.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/www/eglug/modules/bidi.module This is needed to make arabic function correctly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 14, 2005 - 17:40 : killes@www.drop.org moving to Drupal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 14, 2005 - 21:04 : kbahey To the original author of the bidi.module: Please commit it to the contrib respository, and create a project page for it. This way everyone can get it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 21, 2005 - 18:09 : Steven This is in fact not needed at all for Arabic. It is needed to /mix/ two languages with different text directions. This is a different thing altogether. The code seems a bit excessive to me: you should use regular expressions for speed, as well as use Unicode character ranges instead of byte-based regexps (use the /u modifier). Finally, the filter settings should be removed, as they are not settings at all. This practice was removed in 4.5. Also, I'm not sure about the setlocale() call. In my tests, PHP seems to ignore the locale for almost everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 26, 2005 - 22:27 : msameer kbahey, Alaa is the original author of the module, It's in his sandbox in the drupal CVS. I just ported it to drupal 4.5 API. Infact the module isn't that clean. Alaa is sitting in front of me ATM and he'll reply to this issue. Best regards,