Friday, October 17, 2008

Right to Left support in Gmail

Finally, gmail applies the text direction (left to right & right to left) control.

Since I write more than 60% of my messages in Arabic, I found it really annoying not being able to control the direction of the text I'm writing in the message body.  Wh
en you write a message in Arabic without the right to left (rtl) support, any special character you put at the end of the line like dots, exclamation marks, or comas it goes back the biginning of the line which is at right, where it usualy the end of the line in English.  And while writing, each space you put in between words, the cursor goes back to the beginning of the line as well.

But now, with the rtl support, it's all resolved.

If you still can't find these two cute buttons when you compose a new message or add a reply to a conversation got the gmail settings page and select "Right-to-left editing support on" on the top of the page, in the language section.

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