Set direction of the text automatically

[mokazemi]

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name: Set direction of the text automatically about: Etherpad should determine text direction automatically title: 'Text direction detection' labels: enhancement assignees:

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When etherpad is using in a RTL layout, every text that is written has also RTL direction. So you can't have an RTL layout and write an English text.

Describe the solution you'd like There are some ways to set text direction automatically. For example this area that I'm writing in (Github text area!) has this feature. So when I write something in a RTL languages, it's displayed correctly.

It should be like this: But Etherpad is like this:

Additional context We're using BigBlueButton shared notes tool (Which is Etherpad, I think) for our classes and sometimes we use it to share programming codes during the session. But since it uses rtl=true as URL parameter, all the texts are displayed RTL, even if they're English.

[danielpetri1]

Building onto this, the file generated by the export tool does not use the language code and the direction set in settings.json.