The browser is doing a lot of this ... I don't know too much about it but I think to do it properly every phrase needs language or direction tags around it - something like that.
Found the problem!!! it's a simple matter of page encoding.
I tried this with Mozilla Firefox:
- go to the Moodle homepage (http://moodle.org/)
- change the language to Hebrew (he)
- English will show reversed. Now change the browser's encoding from Hebrew Visual (ISO-8859-8) to Hebrew Logical (ISO-8859-8-I)
- English will now show correctly
I noticed the page source provides the wrong locale guideline to the browser after switching to hebrew (charset=iso-8859-8). Changing that to the right one might solve the problem (no idea how to do that, It's my first day with Moodle;)
I tried this with Mozilla Firefox:
- go to the Moodle homepage (http://moodle.org/)
- change the language to Hebrew (he)
- English will show reversed. Now change the browser's encoding from Hebrew Visual (ISO-8859-8) to Hebrew Logical (ISO-8859-8-I)
- English will now show correctly
I noticed the page source provides the wrong locale guideline to the browser after switching to hebrew (charset=iso-8859-8). Changing that to the right one might solve the problem (no idea how to do that, It's my first day with Moodle;)
Thanks for such a quick & prompt resolution! 
I'm going to try that as soon as I get my own installation sorted.
I'm going to try that as soon as I get my own installation sorted.
I did a test with the latest daily build, and it works. Thanks!
However, there's still one minor issue I encountered during installation.
I selected Hebrew as the installation language, but the page encoding remained the westerm (ISO-8859-1) one.
I changed this manually and had no subsequent encoding issues throughout the install.
However, this is a lower priority issue.
However, there's still one minor issue I encountered during installation.
I selected Hebrew as the installation language, but the page encoding remained the westerm (ISO-8859-1) one.
I changed this manually and had no subsequent encoding issues throughout the install.
However, this is a lower priority issue.
Just in case somebody would like to try this out, note there is a small issue after changing the encoding to Hebrew that causes some of the parameters (e.g. $a->user) not to work.
This is a problem on the translation files. I fixed as many of those as I could find and I am trying to contact the previous translator to merge-in the changes.
With this changes, Moodle displays Hebrew interface wonderfully.
For more details, and updated translations to play with, please refer to: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=8876
This is a problem on the translation files. I fixed as many of those as I could find and I am trying to contact the previous translator to merge-in the changes.
With this changes, Moodle displays Hebrew interface wonderfully.
For more details, and updated translations to play with, please refer to: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=8876
Changes are in CVS now -> few hours delay for anonymous, 9 GMT for langpack