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Launched: Add support for RTL languages

  • January 31, 2021
  • 84 replies
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Abdullah
  • July 15, 2021

YES Please!
We need native Arabic support in Figma.

Available Arabic plugins are not good enough!


Hussam_Gharawi

The time couldn’t be more suitable now to support RTL languages

I WILL move to Figma once it’s done!


abdurrahman_RAJAB

I really can not understand how figma does not support the RTL even though there is a large community who uses it!

if only thought about (Arabic, Persian, Urdu , Hebrew): we can get a market place for more than 420 + 220 + 100 + 110 = 830 Millions speakers around the world! That’s a target that all of the designers at those languages would like to reach!


Nashmi_Alharbi

Agreeeeee, I can’t imagine how great the app would be and will make design easily in Arabic for instance


Khalid_Alharthi

The one feature that makes me want to choose a competitor is RTL support.

Dear Figma Team,

Please do consider this investment


cdes
  • July 15, 2021

Dear Figma team,
I’ve been trying to tell you this since forever. I’ve contacted multiple key people from your team but got no response.

Please, make this happen.
I will help. Free of charge.


Zahra_Maher

Yes Please, we need RTL feature


saeed_sajadi

Please be sure to add RTL capability. Thanks


Aziz1
  • July 23, 2021

we need RTL feature


younes
  • July 23, 2021

I once again stuck with adobe products. They put effort to support RTL, unlike Affinity and XARA also.
I’ll have to stay with adobe again and I HATE it.


Shayan_Moradi

Really?! It shouldn’t be that hard for Figma Team to add RTL Support!
Just a simple condition inside their source to reverse the typing.
It’s hard to run a plugin every time we type Arabic or Persian.


kleja
  • New Member
  • July 28, 2021

RTL support is a must, we struggle everyday launching plugins to workaround this issue.

I don’t understand why they’ don’t cooperating with those programs fixed this issue.

Please, many teams hate using Figma because of RTL poor support.

Make this happen.


Matt12
  • July 30, 2021

Looking for RTL support!
The plugins dont work for special characters or vowels in arabic due to the way plugins try to ‘reverse’…

As with others, I’m back to photoshop for some projects until support is implemented!

Please update soon!


Ariel_Elboim

Any update?


Amo
  • August 7, 2021

I fell in love with @figma but unfortunately there is no support for #Arabic language as I have many clients from the GCC countries such as UAE and Saudi Arabia .


Marina_Ortenberg

i was very surprised what figma don’t have support of RTL languages. in a bad way. i love your product, but shame on you!


Ghenaat
  • August 30, 2021

@figma Any update? 🙄


omar2
  • August 30, 2021

any word from @figma ?


0mid_madah
  • September 11, 2021

please support rtl in figma and figjam


Dolev_Hadar

Yes please 🥰


Yar_St
  • September 26, 2021

Someone in Figma must be a clown.
I just happened to try and work with RTL (Hebrew) and apparently I need a plug-in to do it. Is this company crazy? We’re in 2021 after landing on the moon, figuring out DNA and cloning sheep.
But, Figma decided that the one most basic things for any software, supporting the first languages in existence that are used by hundreds of millions (considering Arabic too), is not worth their time.

I sure hope someone in Figma reads this - because the issue needs to be escalated directly to the CEO. What a joke!


Nashat_Mohammed_Ahmed

Arabic is the 5th most used language in the world, with over 420 million speakers. There are also over 100 million speakers of Urdu and over 9 million speakers of Hebrew. As designers and developers, we shouldn’t just leave hundreds of millions of users behind


ekramy
  • October 6, 2021

I moved from Sketch & Adobe xd to Figma it’s a great design app, but
the difficulty in dealing with languages from right to left, such as the Arabic language, makes me rethink returning to these applications, where dealing with these languages ​​without problems and saves a lot of time in the design process.


adam_asseraf
  • New Participant
  • October 7, 2021

any news on this?


Sebastian_Hall

As someone moving into a i18n project (starting to aim for arabic) a RTL update would be very welcome at this stage