From bea68786740782ed7eb09dc24fc2a6c22ad74fb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:23:18 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] SpecialVersion: Force text credits and license to LTR
 direction

It's safe to assume that text files with credits or licenses are written
in English, so it should be explicitly set to English/LTR
so that English won't appear in RTL wikis as RTL.

Change-Id: Ic9db006b2d3509de32f01ae04782535ab0183993
---
 includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
index 500a931d40..38baf5b953 100644
--- a/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
+++ b/includes/specials/SpecialVersion.php
@@ -92,7 +92,14 @@ class SpecialVersion extends SpecialPage {
 					if ( $file ) {
 						$wikiText = file_get_contents( $file );
 						if ( substr( $file, -4 ) === '.txt' ) {
-							$wikiText = Html::element( 'pre', array(), $wikiText );
+							$wikiText = Html::element(
+								'pre',
+								array(
+									'lang' => 'en',
+									'dir' => 'ltr',
+								),
+								$wikiText
+							);
 						}
 					}
 				}
@@ -109,7 +116,14 @@ class SpecialVersion extends SpecialPage {
 					$file = $this->getExtLicenseFileName( dirname( $extNode['path'] ) );
 					if ( $file ) {
 						$wikiText = file_get_contents( $file );
-						$wikiText = "<pre>$wikiText</pre>";
+						$wikiText = Html::element(
+							'pre',
+							array(
+								'lang' => 'en',
+								'dir' => 'ltr',
+							),
+							$wikiText
+						);
 					}
 				}
 
-- 
2.20.1