Feature Request: Add RTL (right to left language) support

[liorkesos]

RTL is an important (and shuold be easy feature) for mideast languages (hebrew, persian, arabic) This issue was closed in a previous bug and is a seperate issue from language translation.

[alonisser]

+1

[Leonid99]

+1

[yasharne]

+1

[elado]

+1

[elado]

Text inputs on Mac apps have this ability in the context menu:

But seems like N1 overrides this menu

It would be great just to bring it back until a more permanent solution is introduced.

[grinich]

Hi @elado. N1 isn't a normal Mac App -- under the hood it's running Chromium and JavaScript. This means we don't use the Cocoa text boxes which come with regular contextual menus, so the fix isn't so simple.

[elado]

Is it a limitation of Electron? The screenshot was taken from Safari, and Chrome has it on all inputs too.

[grinich]

As far as I know, yes. Electron is pretty minimal. It uses the Chromium Embedded Framework which is essentially just the view rendering code underneath Chrome and not the native OS integration.

[royts]

+1

[mehrancodes]

+1

[rauchy]

+1

[oyagev]

+1 on Linux

[krugi]

+1

[hadifarnoud]

It's a good idea to do what Gmail does for text direction. they switch the direction based on characters typed.

you can find an example here: http://codepen.io/siamak/pen/rAmBb

UPDATE: this one is actually supports all RTL languages https://github.com/hasenj/bidiweb

[obahareth]

+1

[hadifarnoud]

can we get an ETA on this? This is the only blocking issue for me to fully switch to N1

[heyanlong]

+1

[OhadRon]

+1

[dortheimer]

+1

[argamanza]

+1 Writing a mail which involves both English and Hebrew is just a nightmare.

[amijafari]

+1

[hugoalmeidahh]

+1

[sajadshokri]

+1

[1001adi]

+1 !!!!

[amig]

Until a good working solution is available, I would like to suggest the following workaround: Enable the "Quick Replies" plug-in. The templates are saved in ~/.nylas/templates

Create a file: RTL.html and paste into it: <div style="direction:rtl;text-align:right;"><div>RTL</div></div>

Now, the first thing you do when creating a new email, select the RTL quick reply and wallah.

[ronshoshani]

+1

[msudgh]

To add this feature just you need to detect Mideast ASCII, after that if it was Mideast, ok, add dir="rtl" to div. like this => http://codepen.io/siamak/pen/rAmBb

[nournia]

Using dir=auto may helps. You can check out its documentation: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-dir-attribute

[msudgh]

@nournia yeah, it's possible and maybe better choice to fix this issue

[eyalw]

+1

[mequ]

+1

[alono]

+1 Just started using it, but RTL will make me remove thunderbird :)

[clockworkpc]

@amig Thanks, this is a great little workaround! תודה אחי

[hadifarnoud]

I wrote an example here https://codepen.io/hadifarnoud/pen/rmdxWe

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[moughxyz]

@nournia dir=auto works wonderfully. Added it to the Standard Notes web client https://github.com/standardnotes/web