Bidirectional Text (BIDI) and TiddlyWiki

There are a lot of efforts to make TiddlyWiki support bidirectional text. Recently it was realized that using a CSS like below (html - How to test CSS direction: auto as an english speaker - Stack Overflow)

* {
  unicode-bidi: plaintext;
  text-align: start; /* Align text automatically left/right*/
}

Test

For those who are interested in bidirectional text, you can try the following steps:

  • Visit https://tiddlywiki.com/
  • Create a tiddler and tag it with $:/tags/Stylesheet
  • Enter the above CSS in the text field (tiddler body) and save
  • Now, try using a right-to-left language and create tiddlers with bullet items, headings, tags, etc., and see how it works nicely.
  • You can use a mix of both RTL and LTR, making your tiddler a BIDI.

Please share your findings here.

References

Remarks
So if you use Right to Left Scripts like Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu,… or you need a mix of RTL/LTR please join us at #4541or give here your idea, feedback here.

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