Hybrid text direction?

[Mohammed Abu Risha]

Hello everybody

When typing an Arabic sentence containing English words, the whole order is confused after the post is made, even if I set the alignment to right. I checked the options in the control panel and found that it gives two options: Either left to right or right to left. Is there anyway to have the witing system in a given post override the default one set in the options? Is there any way to allow for a hybrid text direction whereby any sentence in a post in deemed as Arabic (RLT) if it starts with an Arabic word, and vice-versa with English?

[Wayne Luke]

You can create a BBCode that implements HTML's BDO tag in content. It is designed to override the text direction. You can learn more about it here:

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_bdo.asp

Custom BBCodes -> Add New BBCode:

Title: BDO
BBCode Title: BDO
Replacement: <bdo dir="ltr">{param}</bdo>
Example: [bdo]English Text Here[/bdo]
Description: Bidirectional Override BBCode.
Use {option}: No
Set the rest as you see fit.