is there a way to create bbcodes in a slightly different format?

[oferlaor]

the current format for entering bbcodes is

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[something]***[/something]

the problem is that my forum is in Hebrew, which is left to right, and the square parentheses is extremely hard to work with since it messes the order, it looks like a mess...

is there a way to create a start/stop tag that doesn't follow the square parentheses format through the admin interface?

[thecoalman]

You end with something like this in posting pane?

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[something]werbeH tfel ot thgiR[/something]

[halil16]

is there a way to create a start/stop tag that doesn't follow the square parentheses format through the admin interface?

None by default. But, doesn't BBcode start from the left too?

[oferlaor]

the problem is that the order is messed up because the post editing is RTL...

note the mess on top...

[thecoalman]

That's certainly a mess. At the very least it should consistent. This is something to bring up in the bug tracker.

https://tracker.phpbb.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa

Edit: Just to add there may be reasons it's like that.....

[oferlaor]

it's not really a bug, it's just that the bbcode square parenthesis format doesn't really work well with RTL...

it's always been like that. It can't really be fixed.

The question is whether there is a way to use another format with phpbb 3 ?

Ultimately, this all works using a managed start tag, stop tag and some type of preg_replace array...

[thecoalman]

There is selection for improvement in bug tracker. There is nothing that can't be fixed but that might be a real problem.

The only suggestion that comes to mind is trying one of the BBcode editors. I'm pretty sure they use a WYSIWG interface so the BBcode would hidden, no idea if they are RTL compatible either.