Add RTL support?

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Look, Onlyoffice feels great. It got that modern look, I feel it’s faster and even it’s supported on nextcloud.

I like it even more than Libreoffice (*even though I’m a libreoffice hardcore fan)

but my god how much it’s hard to add support for Right-To-Left Languages? As an Arabic speaker user I use onlyoffice not only for online edits but also for school work and guess what? we type in Arabic (I know it’s a surprise!) and nope onlyoffice STILL does not support that for some reason so i got back to libreoffice but i still need to use onlyoffice so can you support RTL? I’m sure it’s not rocket science

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Hello @esmailelbob

Unfortunately, Right to Left languages are still not supported by ONLYOFFICE, our developers are working on implementing them in the future, but still, there is no exact release date. We apologize for the inconveniences caused!

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How we can help to achive that…
For me it’s the only option to switch to linux and leave microsoft…

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Do we have any update on this issue ?
Is it still in development?

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Use Libreoffice

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Please update if possible

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Hello @antox @esmailelbob
Unfortunately, there is still no exact release date. The post will be updated when RTL support will be added.

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Is there a way we can help develop Arabic & RTL support further?

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Hello @armbouhali
Thank you for your suggestion. We are working hard to release RTL as soon as possible. We don’t need a help at the moment, but we noted this post and thank you for your suggestion. We will contact you when we have something to share.

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Hello, any updates with it… please… is there chance that it will be on 2023 ?

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Hello @Ofer5183
We’re still working on it. I know that community looks for this feature and we will immediately share any news on it when we have something to share.
Sorry for the length of the situation.

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Guys it’s been ages, add hebrew at least :sob:

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Hello @elonhrary
We are on the finish line. It took a lot of work, but I believe we are going to provide a good news in the near future.

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Hai Alex! Any update on this?

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Hello @Azhab98
We have added RTL support in beta status in the last major release: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#all-editors
Right now we are actively working to improve all aspects of RTL, I will update this thread when we have something to share.

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Hello,
I am using onlyoffice version 8.2.0.143 but i have a problem with Arabic in spreadsheet cell, when I write the words it’s appear in reverse form. for example the word “الرجل” appear “لجرلا”.
Please find Attached, a screenshot of the problem.

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Hello Hossam,
Thank you for mentioning this issue.

Currently, the RTL support in the Spreadsheet editor is limited to the interface and formula field. Unfortunately, full RTL support for cells is not yet available. However, I’m pleased to inform you that we are actively working on implementing complete RTL support for the Spreadsheet editor in the upcoming 8.3 release, planned for Q1 2025.

Stay tuned for updates, and we greatly appreciate your patience and feedback.

Your insights and suggestions are always welcome!

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Many thanks Ali. I appreciate your professional response. If it’s legal according your company’s low and regulation please send me your linked-in profile link.
Thanks again,
Hossam

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Thank you, Hossam, you can follow us at: ONLYOFFICE | LinkedIn

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Hi ,
My question is for configuration level as i have integrated only office in my application where we were using some other editor previously.
Can anyone please let me know, if we have any configuration in only office so that it will automatically write from right to left.
And i am trying to select different different languages from bottom of the editor
still its only writing data in English i am trying to use it for Arabic.
Even tough i have tried options available over internet to use to write data in RTL
and select language as Arabic but nothing worked.
Version of my editor is 8.1.3.
If anyone can answer if this feature is available or not and if yes how we can use it .
I will be really helpful .
Thanks in Advance.