By abdoul on

hello all
I need to build a site that supports English, arabic and hebrew and as u know english is LTR language while arabic and hebrew are RTL languages. so my questions is as follows:

if I choose any of the RTL themes as my default theme then all the arabic and hebrew contents will be well presented but when switching to english the content will be viewed as RTL because the theme is RTL and if I choose the LTR theme then the same problem will be with arabic and hebrew..

what am I supposed to do? is there any option for choosing a default theme for each language or maybe changing the theme each time the visitor changes the language?

thanks in advance

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kgjerstad’s picture

kgjerstad commented

With the multilingual module i18n, under Home › Administer › Site configuration > Multilingual system, there's "Language icons path". Ideally, they should provide the same for CSS files. Then we could just add text-align to our liking.

I have the same problem myself. I hope they can accomodate the "left to right" and "right to left" people in the future, politics aside of course.

jose reyero’s picture

jose reyero commented

Though some times a simple stylesheet addition may do, it is not a general solution.

I've added some example here of how a theme can support LTR/RTL languages, see http://drupal.org/node/142214

https://reyero.net