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YBLR
New member
Status: New idea

Hello to Mozilla Community,

Current stable version (102.12.0) and NEW beta version (115.0b4) of Thunderbird, doesn't support Right to Left typing and alignment for Right to Left (RTL) languages. older versions had private extensions which mostly supported it.

Emails, words and characters written in RTL context are getting mixed up.

please consider to add this feature to Thunderbird.

Thanks

32 Comments
Matnas
Strollin' around

It is pretty amazing that this is reported for such a long time, relevant for half a billion people around the world, fixed, supported and well documented in other Mozilla products like Firefox, patched in extensions like BiDi Mail UI (and breaks in every major update) and still nothing.
I hope it will be addressed soon. 

MickeyCohen
New member

Situation is worse. 

 

I have been using the BIDI add on until Mozilla activated a policy of always in validating add ons not released for the latest Thunderbird release.
 
And since they release every 2-3 days the debeloper could not cope with this anymore.
 
So I switched to Betterbird that does not have this add-on killer poilicy.
 
I really have no explanation why a billion people with non left to right languges do not get builtin support!
 
Best,
Mickey