Arabic, Persian & RTL
Right-to-left publishing is getting Arabic and Persian pages to read as natively as English ones — direction, type, numbers and the Latin fragments (handles, tickers, brand names) that run through them. This topic covers what breaks and how to fix it.
The guide
Direction is one attribute. Reading natively is everything after it — the handles, tickers, numbers and type that run through an Arabic or Persian page.
More on arabic, persian & rtl
Arabic letters join, reach further above and below the line than Latin, and can read smaller at the same size. Type settings made for English break them in ways a native reader sees at once.
Terms in this topic
- Bidirectional text
- Text that mixes right-to-left and left-to-right runs, such as an Arabic sentence containing a Latin handle or ticker. Browsers order it with the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
- Right-to-left (RTL)
- A writing direction in which lines start at the right edge and run leftward, as in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew. A right-to-left web page mirrors its layout to match.
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