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RTL Languages Support

#1

I wonder why you do not support RTL languages support despite so many people requested this.

I hope you add this great feature to SublimeText 3.

Thank you so much

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#2

You can up vote this feature request on the GitHub issue tracker:

  1. https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/109 [RTL] Sublime Text and Arabic, Persian, Hebrew languages
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#3

Thanks for your comment but I don’t think so, They do not care that you vote or not because there is enough vote to accept this feature.

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#4

… They do not care …

I don’t think so!

As ST uses a self developed editor control the authors need to add the required functionality to support RTL layouts on their own. The whole editor’s functionality must be capable of handling both LTR and RTL, which adds quite a lot of complexity to the code and needs to be designed, implemented and tested thoroughly. As it causes heavy changes to the very fundamental core of ST, I’d guess it’s a very time expensive and complex challenge. Maybe even with negative impact on performance if not designed well.

With a look onto the recent big changes to ST

  • full High-DPI support
  • updating font rendering with ligatures support

and the number of votes and requests, I could imagine RTL support to be the next logical step.

But no one knows for sure as the authors correctly don’t make promises they can’t make sure to fulfill.

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