Mark Dain Sublevel doesn't have right-to-left support :( I don't know if the Unicode character is required, I believe iOS outputs one when you change keyboard

🦿 Lucian Marin I believe CSS support is necessary. Basically I need to autodetect right-to-left text and apply a CSS class.

Mark Dain Hmm, that could be tricky, especially with mixed sentences. I wonder if we could detect if the sentence starts with the Unicode right-to-left mark (UTF8: E2 80 8F / ‏). @martijnvdven any ideas how best to tackle this?

Martijn Auto-detection and CSS on mixed direction text! Hahahahaha... haha... ha..? Oh, you weren't joking? The I invite you (and @lucian of course) to read w3.org/Internation... The whole page is pretty on point, but for Sublevel the heading "Handling content whose direction is not known in advance" is the important one. Adding dir="auto" on the textarea and pasting in #25074 does put it as RTL in my browser. I haven't done any further testing. I only know the theory, haven't actually had to implement any of this, ever.

🦿 Lucian Marin It can be reported to the server using `dirname` attribute. On the server I can set RTL as a boolean value for each reply/update. So the problem can be solved, @ancarda. There's no need for hacks.

Martijn Yes, that's described in the article I linked. But do note that it is only supported by WebKit based browsers. According to the W3, not even Firefox supports it. And I don't know if they even test mobile browsers, so that will be interesting to see.

Mark Dain Oohh that's neat! If you add that and dir="auto" to the input, please let me know and I'll test again. For longer paragraphs of <rtl language> it should look less weird; if you manually set text-align: right on the 2 words I posted looks really out of place. I'll see if I can dig up some sample sentences (I'm not remotely fluent so I can't just write something) -- #25085