Support RTL languages

[gorhill]

Just like with uBlock, I need to go through all HTML codes to be RTL language-friendly

[Mikey1993]

This is a blessed move on my part (I am the Hebrew translator on Crowdin), and would be glad to help.

[gorhill]

I will use a different approach than with uBlock though, as per @Deathamns' input: using @@bidi_ makes the code non-portable. It can be avoided with a mix of simple CSS/JS.

[Mikey1993]

Sure thing, I agree.

[gorhill]

So I am going to try and fix this today. There are things I am not sure about how it should render for RTL languages, like the matrix:

Should the top toolbar be exactly reverse-ordered (i.e. scope selector to the right, etc.), or should I keep the exact same order?

Also, what about the matrix columns, exact same or exact reverse?

[Mikey1993]

The top toolbar should be reverse-ordered, e.g. the "mozilla.org" drop down list on the most right, then the power button icon, then the lock icon and so on..

While the matrix columns should be as shown in your image.
Although I see that some of the titles are cut out, is it something you are gonna address?

Thanks for your work!

[gorhill]

Re. "middle". This is what I have on my side when using "he" locale:

[Mikey1993]

Yes, I was silly and didn't update uMatrix to the latest version where you've applied the second patch to this issue - it looks like in your image.

BTW, I am worried about the cut off of some of the headers on the matrix, I have no shorter names or abbreviations for them...
Any thoughts about that?

[Mikey1993]

Actually... I think that the font that English uses is narrower than the one that is used by Hebrew.
Can we sort this out and ultimately fix the cut off?

[gorhill]

Difficult to solve. There is a limit on how wide a popup can be. When using the setting "Large font", the popup is very close to the limit, and we have to be sure we don't beyond this limit, or the matrix will be all broken, i.e. no longer a matrix visually.

[gorhill]

I will experiment with CSS transform tricks when I have time, but I won't hold from "shipping" for now.