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Text overflow outside of box at right of installer screens for long string without linebreaks
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Description

Screenshot showing a localized text extending to the outside of the box at the right side of the installer screen


Version: 1.22.0
Severity: trivial

Attached:

mw-installer-L3T0.png (306×452 px, 14 KB)

Details

Reference
bz28304

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:24 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz28304.
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If we want to avoid crossing the border, we need to have css word-wrap: break-word;
But it may not be desirable for many languages to break the word at arbitrary position.

German translation for "Datenbankeinstellungen" is now (1.22 from git master) "Einstellungen zur Datenbank" but the issue can still happen when I change it to a long string without linebreaks locally.

Not sure if something useful could be done here. Allowing text overflow still seems to be better than just cutting it off.

We could increase the width of the box

saper subscribed.

We should check if the issue is still there

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Bug Report".

Above tackled preliminary (without hyphens) in T318205: WebInstaller: Increase `#mw-panel` width slightly.
For a big number of lines per paragraphs, hyphens might not be the first choice, here I think it would make it look much more professional for German users.
But I've been in a number of discussions and friendly acceptance towards hyphens is not the norm.

Will provide a patch in a few days and see where it lands.