Launched: Add support for RTL languages

While this is not added you can take advantage of plugins for this. I’m sure you’re aware, but there are a few that help with this, Arabic & RTL Support being the most installed one.

Actually, this is a real pain point for a big part of the population who speak the RTL languages.
Many companies are waiting with their transition to Figma because of the lack of support for these languages 🙄

Thanks, it works great in Hebrew too
But still, Figma needs to solve this problem

The RTL PLZ plugin would help you, hope Figma adds support for RTL language ASAP.

Typing in RLT languages such as Persian (Farsi) is really a hassle in Figma, adobe xd simply fixed it from the beginning. This feature is really missing on Figma, there are plugins that reverse LRT but that’s not a consistent and permanent solution, and takes ages to do this on big projects. Please add this feature.

Love you guys at @figma

None of the plugins are a viable solution. Especially when we get to symbols, dynamic text and responsive layouts. Figma has been ignoring the community on this subject for years. Figma it is time for you to assume the design leadership role you claim to be entitled to and realize not all of your users look, talk, and write like you.

We are a Community of Hebrew/Arabic Native speakers.
We love Figma but it is not inclusive. our community represents more than 1500 companies (we are 3500 people and growing every day)
Hope that you will Finally realize the potential of the Israel ecosystem with more Unicorn companies anywhere in the world outside of the US

Cheers,
Your friend from Israel,
Ido Zaifman
#fof_israel

It’s critical to have it, I know of many people that are still working with XD and not Figma because of this RTL issue

It is very difficult for me to work with Figma when every word I have to make RTL with a dedicated plugin. Most of my sites are in Hebrew. I prefer to work with other software even though I did a Figma course

Working on Hebrew product is possible thanks to the community that provides plugins, but it’s still an incredible pain point. Plugins don’t work seamlessly, you need different plugins for different needs (writing va converting vs resizable components), it’s a challenge if you work with non-Hebrew speaking dev team, and makes it very difficult to make good typography.

Plugins can’t be a permanent solution.

Hi Figma,

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.
from Don’t be backwards by Alan Sien Wei Hshieh
Don’t be backwards. A quick guide to making sure your app… | by Alan Sien Wei Hshieh | Prototypr

I love Figma! With proper RTL support, it would be the best Platform I ever used.
Please make me happy with other millions of users!

Thank youuu 💓

I think this is crucial for me to continue working on Figma as a designer who’s creating products in different languages like it’s for Arabic speakers which is a huge community…

Hi Figma team, let me draw your attention to the fact that this is the most voted-for feature request you have on your platform. It deserves your attention.

Please fix it.
It’s the ONLY reason my team can’t use Figma!

Israel has a vibrant design community that works with Figma, and most of them need writing ability from right to left (in Hebrew, Arabic and Amharic) - we are sure you have the ability to create quick localization of the language - make us happy!

It not just will make us happier but will improve the lives of millions of users.
Some stats about our languages:

• Speakers of those languages are 12% of the whole world population. With Standard Arabic as the fifth most popular language in the world (see Ethnologue, Top 200 Languages)
• The fifth part of the content language for world websites represented by BiDirectional (mixing RTL & RTL script) languages, with Persian as the fifth most commonly used language, Arabic & Hebrew in top 20 in April 2021 (Usage Statistics and Market Share of Content Languages for Websites, May 2021)
• In March 2020, Arabic was the fourth most spoken language by global internet users and with a rapidly growing internet penetration (Top Ten Internet Languages in The World - Internet Statistics)

PS. In CHI 2021 I’ll present a work about problems with BiDirectional (RTL+LTR) languages, hope, that this is also a fact, demonstarting the needing of support.
https://camps.aptaracorp.com/ACM_PMS/PMS/ACM/CHI21/420/01837ac8-45c7-11eb-8d84-166a08e17233/OUT/chi21-420.html

PPS. We understand, that it’s not a simple task and will be happy to help you! 🙂

מהממת!

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I think it’s time to make this happen, makes all of us Hebrew / Arabic speakers work harder with plugins and workarounds just to make it work somehow.

Hope we hear some news soon, will really make a difference for all of us.

Hello there Figma team
This topic is a real pain point for us Hebrew/Arabic speakers.
Working on text in Figma feels arcaic like working on PS many many years ago…

FYI

Yes please add support for rtl!

Please Figam !!
Add RTL supprt.

Really strange that I so no reply from Figma team …
It seams that we are being ignored from some reason
😦

Please Figam !!
Add RTL supprt.

Please add rtl support… some times small works solve big problems… its only important figma weakness that everyone knows

Dear Figma team, be different from Adobe XD – provide proper support. We moved to Figma because Adobe XD team ignores the community. Be those who help the community. Solve problems.