It would be really helpful if checkvist could respect unicode RTL while editing a task.

It would be really helpful if checkvist could respect unicode RTL while editing a task.

Some of my tasks are in Hebrew, which is a right-to-left language. This can make things awkward when editing tasks or notes that have mixed RTL and LTR text or numbers and symbols.

What I'd like is the following behavior:

* When entering edit mode in either single line or multiline tasks, the text direction should change from ltr to rtl ("direction" property in CSS) and align to the right. Usually, I believe, the proper direction is detected based on either explicit direction symbols in unicode or the directionality of the first non-numeric non-symbolic letter character.)
* When not in edit mode, the text should continue to align left on the outline by default, but it should still appear in the correct directionality.
* There should be an option to change the direction of an outline manually. Some lists are purely in Hebrew. I did a small experiment and manually changed the direction of the #tasks_block element to rtl and almost everything worked just fine. The only immediate issues I noticed are that expand/collapse with the left/right arrow keys has to be reversed, and the expand/collapse indicators have to move to the right. The # and @ symbols appear to the right of the names and tags they're attached to, but that might actually be a good thing.
* The list of lists should also have a similar option, separate from each list's individual setting.

I don't know how much effort is involved in adding this kind of support, but it would be very useful for any language that uses a right-to-left script, including Hebrew and Arabic and sometimes Chinese and Japanese, and others.

By the way, I don't know if there are any plans to localize the interface, but I'd be glad to help translate to Hebrew.

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  1. Kirill Maximov (KIR)21 July 2016 at 01:55

    Hello Noam Kfir, thank you very much for the detailed explanation. Unfortunately, we don't have resources to implement this in the near future. We had a request for RTL support for quite some time, but it is not very popular so we haven't looked at this direction a lot: https://checkvist.uservoice.com/forums/2121-general/suggestions/5016622-rtl-support

    And our resources are really limited, so we're trying to apply them to things which are more requested, like mobile support.

    Thanks again,

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