diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5cfc3e256..dc157bdee 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2004-07-07 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * main.php: bug 984136, wrong alignment in RTL languages
+
 2004-07-06 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * libraries/export/xls.php: enable user to specify './tmp' as the
       TempDir -- use realpath() to find the complete path. Add error trap
diff --git a/main.php b/main.php
index 5d712b7de..90fb81a76 100644
--- a/main.php
+++ b/main.php
@@ -71,10 +71,13 @@ echo "\n";
 /**
  * Displays the welcome message and the server informations
  */
+
+// note: for proper display of RTL languages, I removed the
+//       align="left" in the next <td> tag
 ?>
 <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
     <tr>
-        <td align="left" valign="top">
+        <td valign="top">
         <h1>
         <?php
         echo sprintf($strWelcome, ' phpMyAdmin ' . PMA_VERSION . '');