Problems writing in two languages in the same paragraph

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  eshedlin · Member · Dec 25, 2019 at 6:02 pm

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  Hello all,

  I am having problems mixed writing with English and Hebrew.

  Hebrew is written from right to left contrary to English which is the other way around.. because of that when I try to add English terms or words in the text the whole paragraph goes crazy and I have to find very creative ways to fit the words I wish inside the paragraph..

  Is there any easy option to make that mess disappear?

  Thanks you!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Dec 26, 2019 at 2:37 pm

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  Hi there!

  Could you give us a link to an example so we can have a look? A screenshout would also be great. You can use an online tool for that (such as https://snipboard.io/), or follow the instructions described here:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/.

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  eshedlin · Member · Dec 26, 2019 at 9:43 pm

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  Well it may seem ok to you non-Hebrew readers but for those who read it looks terrible and a mess.. for example:

  פוסט קצר – לקטט, כאבי שרירים וטעויות נפוצות

  Thanks alot!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 26, 2019 at 10:59 pm

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  Ok, I see the page, and sorry to prove the point you made in your reply, but would you please elaborate on what exactly is wrong?

  We do have a few co-workers who speak Hebrew, but they’re away for a bit, so an explanation will help our other developers get started.

  Thanks!

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  eshedlin · Member · Dec 27, 2019 at 5:37 am

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  I will try although it is hard without seeing.

  Whenever i try to combine English words within Hebrew sentences the whole paragraph goes crazy.

  Because hebrew is written from right to left, when you add word or term in different language it jumps to the start of the sentence and makes the next words go “out of order”..

  For example i will try to show this in english and the upper case word is the other language word:

  The correct way is:

  this text is an EXAMPLE for demonstration

  The problem is:

  For demonstration EXAMPLE this text is an

  Something like that..

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 28, 2019 at 8:07 pm

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  Thanks! We’ll see what we can do. :)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 30, 2019 at 7:35 pm

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  Ok, we checked with our developers, and the problem appears to be that your site is still set in English, so they recommend setting that to Hebrew: https://en.support.wordpress.com/language-settings/#blog-language

  To make writing in the editor work better for RTL languages, we also recommend that you have your account’s language set to Hebrew: https://wordpress.com/me/account

  You can have the account in English, but it’s like working with an LTR interface when you are trying to create RTL content, so you might want to keep switching that as you move between languages.

  We also have some general recommendations under https://en.support.wordpress.com/set-up-a-multilingual-blog/

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  eshedlin · Member · Dec 30, 2019 at 7:44 pm

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  Thanks you very much!! changing the language does seem to work!