How to align email notifications to the right?
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I use Twenty Twelve with an RTL language (Hebrew). Nevertheless, email notifications arrive aligned to the left, which looks bad. How to align email notifications to the right?
Thanks.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there. This isn’t a setting we can change, unfortunately. But I’ll tag this for staff so they can be aware of the issue with email notifications for RTL language blogs. Hopefully that’s something that can be fixed.
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Hello there!
Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention! I’ve brought this to our team, and I’ll be in touch once I have a resolution for you!
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Hi again!
The justification settings are dependent upon the reader’s personal language settings.
If a follower has subscribed to your blog, and his personal settings were Hebrew, his email would be right justified.
Because your personal language settings are configured for English, you are receiving the notifications with left justification.
If you wish to change your own Interface Language reading settings, you can do so here:
https://wordpress.com/me/accountI hope this helps! If you have any other concerns, drop me a note. Thanks much!
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I don’t have a horse in this race, but wouldn’t it make more sense to have this determined by the blog’s language settings? I’m just thinking that many users in certain parts of the world might be following blogs in both a RTL language and English, or another LTR language, which means no matter what their personal settings, half their email notifications will be aligned on the wrong side. Just a thought.
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HI there,
Well, I can certainly mention this to my colleagues, KokkieH. However, I’m not sure this is adjustable. The notifications contain instructions, links, and other content in the subscriber’s language. The justification would impact this as well.
Thanks for the thought — you should add it to our Ideas forum, if you get a second!
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas
:)
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The notifications contain instructions, links, and other content in the subscriber’s language. The justification would impact this as well.
Of course. I didn’t think about that :)
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Hi,
Thanks to both of you for your inputs. I second kokkieh, and believe that most WP users would, too. Many, if not most, of RTL language users would also use an LTR language as well – e.g., English and Hebrew/Arabic/Urdu. For email I use MS Outlook, and it handles LTR/RTL perfectly in terms of left/right alignment. That is, I get English email messages aligned to the left and Hebrew messages – to the right.
Indeed, some Hebrew messages occasionally come left-aligned, possibly because my default Windoes user interface is English. But this must not affect the use of WordPress.
I assure you, based on notifications I’ve been getting from other blogs, getting WP email notifications misaligned looks very bad. So this is something that WP should handle in structuring its email notifications. I would think that the default alignment should be of the blog’s langauge.
Thanks for your consideration.
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I’ve just posted a thread in the ideas forum to propose this idea. It’s no guarantee the feature will be introduced, but if enough people support the suggestion the developers might consider it.
Please go post in that thread to show your support for the idea: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/variable-alignment-for-post-content-in-email-notifications?replies=1#post-2276472
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Hi thatrobyn,
For your convenience, I am pasting below a follow-up point that I posted in the wish thread that kokkieh opened. You might find it useful.
Thanks.A follow-up – As an academic I’ve encountered a similar problem with Moodle, an open-source course management system. Our IT staff located and embedded a module that adds the standard LTR/RTL alignment buttons to the editor.
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It turns out that WP’s happiness engineers have taken measures to fix the problem. Email notifications in Hebrew are now right-aligned. Thumbs up!!
One little glitch remains, though. While the paragraphs are right-aligned, the final punctuation mark – usuall a full stop – and if there’s a parentesis then it as well, are not located properly at the end of the paragraph but are thrown to the beginning [on the RHS] of the last line.
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Hello there!
I’ve notified the staff about this issue as well. Thanks so much for bringing it to our attention!
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Hi There,
A follow-up, which I’d be grateful for forwarding to the staff as well.
RTL email notifications look better now, but there’s still a couple of issues:
1. The email text gets garbled when there are RTL and LTR pieces in the same paragraph.
2. When I put numbers at the beginning of the line in LTR text the number is thrown to the right.
And a couple issues in the WP online presentation:
3. When I include an LTR paragraph, the last full stop is thrown to the the left of the last line.
4. When mixed [RTL and LTR] text is pasted to the WP editor it get all mixed up and takes a good deal of time to sort out, not always successfully.
I uploaded two files to the Media secion in my blog named screenshots2.pdf and screenshots2.doc. The files show screenshots of the blog, of the related email notification, and the original text.
I use W7/IE11 and Outlook 2003.
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Hi There,
A follow-up, which I’d be grateful for forwarding to the staff as well.
RTL email notifications look better now, but there’s still a couple of issues:
1. The email text gets garbled when there are RTL and LTR pieces in the same paragraph.
2. When I put numbers at the beginning of the line in LTR text the number is thrown to the right.
And a couple issues in the WP online presentation:
3. When I include an LTR paragraph, the last full stop is thrown to the the left of the last line.
4. When mixed [RTL and LTR] text is pasted to the WP editor it get all mixed up and takes a good deal of time to sort out, not always successfully.
I uploaded two files to the Media secion in my blog named screenshots2.pdf and screenshots2.doc. The files show screenshots of the blog, of the related email notification, and the original text.
I use W7/IE11 and Outlook 2003.
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Thanks for the additional info and for including screenshots!
While I don’t have a fix available for any of these issues immediately, I’ve passed them along to our development staff with the previous request Robyn submitted. :)
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