Bi-directional text editing and Web Translate It

By Edouard on March 5, 2010

Today someone asked me if Web Translate It support bidi scripts.

What are bidi scripts?

Bi-directionnal scripts is text containing text in both directionalities, that is to say both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR). This is fairly frequent, for example Arab text containing English brand names.

Web Translate It support LTR, RTL and bi-directionnal text in its web interface. More precisely, Web Translate It automatically select the correct text directionality based on the language and script you choose.

Bi-directionnality is a web-browser feature. It works fine with Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome and Safari 4.

Thank you for using Web Translate It!