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Launched: Add support for RTL languages

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January 31, 2021
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Hello!
I wanted to report a problem with the text component
The component works great in all languages, but I noticed that in the Hebrew language (and probably also in Arabic) the order of the letters is reversed
This is a well-known problem in Hebrew because it needs RTL support

.redro esrever ni nettirw si txet elohw eht taht si ti gnitartsurf woh kniht tsuJ

(Just think how frustrating it is that the whole text is written in reverse.)

Another important thing to note is that we (speakers of RTL languages) are very aware of this problem, but designers who do not speak these languages often encounter this problem without noticing. For example, even in the familiar game - Brawl Stars (They corrected this after the post was published) and many others have problems with the Hebrew text displayed in the screenshots of the game in Google play

For the developers of Figma- I found great documentation for the implementation of RTL in SVG: Creating SVG Tiny Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and other Right-to-left scripts

I really like to design in Figma but it’s just awful to design with Hebrew text so please add RTL support

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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

@figma Any update? 🙄

omar2

any word from @figma ?

0mid_madah

please support rtl in figma and figjam

Dolev_Hadar

Yes please 🥰

Yar_St

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

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.