Add support for RTL language

60 votes

Right to left writing)

Under consideration editor Suggested by: mako (08 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 13 May • Comments: 11

Comments: 11

05 Mar, '21
Bill Admin
Can you elaborate on what specific support you would like to see? Does Notion offer this?
05 Mar, '21
Bill Admin
"Add support for RTL language" (suggested by Mako on 2021-02-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
07 Oct, '21
markus von kaenel
Hebrew and Arabic would be great to have
29 Mar, '22
Eran Sakal
Hello,
Thank you so much for the great product. I discovered it while looking for methods like Zettelkasten and "Building a second brain", and immediately saw the power of your server. I'm using Notion a lot but I think each fits different purposes. You asked about Notion support for RTL and unfortunately, they also don't support it. Supporting it means detecting that the text is Hebrew/Arabic and wrapping it using <p style='direction:rtl; text-align: right'> or something similiar so the text will be aligned to the right and also characters will be shown correctly.
01 Dec, '22
Ohad
Is it on your roadmap?
07 Feb, '23
Ahmad
It was a deal breaker not having RTL support as I was about to transfer all of my notes here but just not yet as many of my notes are written in Arabic language looking closely tho
10 Apr, '23
Tom
I'd like to add my vote as well to at least a basic RTL support, which allows to combine in the same line Numbers + LTR words + RTL words.
* Dynalist & Obsidian have an RTL option built it.
* Someone wrote a simple .js script for Logseq and it works there too (mobile&desktop)
* Google Keep & Tasks of course
* Taskade has the option too. Also TRELLO.
* Notion & Clickup have user-made chrome extensions for RTL support (though not 100% and not on mobile)

Just to emphasize, we are not talking about having the whole app in RTL mode (menus, etc) - only the actual text-fields used by the user.

Plenty of info on the web how to implement it via css and other methods, without needing to re-write the whole code :-)
I'm no expert though. But like others, need to combine in one sentence English + Hebrew/Arabic + Numbers, without it turning into a mess.

Cheers!
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28 Sep, '23
Avi A
Would also love RTL support for Arabic + Hebrew. I'd like to re-emphasize Tom's words - we are looking for RTL support for the editor (jots, notes, etc), not the whole app.
2
09 Jan
Xayden Rosario
The change should be in the notes themselves and not the entire app. I'm thinking of buttons similar to the bold and italic but for LTR mode and RTL mode, this will make it easy to switch directions.
16 Jan
Mahmoud Fahiem
RTL support is essential for me :(
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07 Feb
don
Was just a step from migrating from evernote, then discovered RTL not supported. shame