[wp-polyglots] using xx_YY.php in translation files for setting directionality

[Ryan Boren]

On 5/12/07, Ran Yaniv Hartstein <ran at trans.co.il> wrote:
> I can't find proper documentation in the codex for setting theme
> directionality and for other uses of the xx_YY.php file in the
> translation files.
>
> This article by Ryan Boren is the only reference I found on the
> matter, and it doesn't fully work for me:
> http://boren.nu/archives/2007/01/07/rtl-support-in-wordpress-21/

If you have your language is set to 'he', you put your he.mo and
he.php in wp-content/languages.  he.php would look like this:

<?php

$text_direction = 'rtl';

?>

> The install procedure and error message contain functions to be RTLed
> according the the text_direction variable, but they just don't work.

Which functions?  Install should be using install-rtl.css.

> Also, there is no documentation on how to use xx_YY.php file to change
> features in wordpress as a substitute to a plugin. For e.g., I have a
> filter plugin I want to include in this file. How do I go about doing
> that?

he.php is loaded shortly after plugins are loaded.  It's just like a
plugin except you don't have to activate it.  You can put whatever you
want in there.  Copy your plugin code into he.php and it should work.

Ryan