experimental rtl support; this will probably require a fair bit of work.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 764e81292..6cf92d577 100755
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ class App {
 	public static  $groups;
 	public static  $language;
 	public static  $langsave;
+	public static  $rtl = false;
 	public static  $plugins_admin;
 	public static  $module_loaded = false;
 	public static  $query_string;
@@ -2282,6 +2283,12 @@ function construct_page(&$a) {
 	$page    = App::$page;
 	$profile = App::$profile;
 
+	// There's some experimental support for right-to-left text in the view/php/default.php page template.
+	// In v1.9 we started providing direction preference in the per language hstrings.php file
+	// This requires somebody with fluency in a RTL language to make happen
+
+	$page['direction'] = 0; // ((App::$rtl) ? 1 : 0);
+
 	header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
 
 	// security headers - see https://securityheaders.io