From 5dd38fee468b119a5c66cca2a56535e641a7ecc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siebrand Mazeland <siebrand@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:30:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content
 language direction

---
 RELEASE-NOTES                        |  1 +
 includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 67f9b0044c..ce426775fa 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
   link from the edit comment
 * (bug 19112) Preferences now respects $wgUseExternalEditor, $wgExternalDiffEngine
 * (bug 18173) MediaWiki now fails when unable to determine a client IP
+* (bug 19170) Special:Version should follow the content language direction
 
 == API changes in 1.16 ==
 
diff --git a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
index 74e1cfcd77..e589af932b 100644
--- a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
+++ b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
@@ -20,13 +20,17 @@ class SpecialVersion extends SpecialPage {
 	 * main()
 	 */
 	function execute( $par ) {
-		global $wgOut, $wgMessageCache, $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks;
+		global $wgOut, $wgMessageCache, $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks, $wgContLang;
 		$wgMessageCache->loadAllMessages();
 
 		$this->setHeaders();
 		$this->outputHeader();
 
-		$wgOut->addHTML( '<div dir="ltr">' );
+		if( $wgContLang->isRTL() ) {
+			$wgOut->addHTML( '<div dir="rtl">' );
+		} else {
+			$wgOut->addHTML( '<div dir="ltr">' );
+		}
 		$text = 
 			$this->MediaWikiCredits() .
 			$this->softwareInformation() .
@@ -47,8 +51,13 @@ class SpecialVersion extends SpecialPage {
 	 * @return wiki text showing the license information
 	 */
 	static function MediaWikiCredits() {
-		$ret = Xml::element( 'h2', array( 'id' => 'mw-version-license' ), wfMsg( 'version-license' ) ) .
-		"__NOTOC__
+		global $wgContLang;
+
+		$ret = Xml::element( 'h2', array( 'id' => 'mw-version-license' ), wfMsg( 'version-license' ) );
+
+		// This text is always left-to-right.
+		$ret .= '<div dir="ltr">';
+		$ret .= "__NOTOC__
 		This wiki is powered by '''[http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki]''',
 		copyright © 2001-2009 Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker,
 		Tim Starling, Erik Möller, Gabriel Wicke, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason,
@@ -70,6 +79,7 @@ class SpecialVersion extends SpecialPage {
 		Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
 		or [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html read it online].
 		";
+		$ret .= '</div>';
 
 		return str_replace( "\t\t", '', $ret ) . "\n";
 	}
-- 
2.20.1