Right-to-left post in blog

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  andreich2718 · Member · Jul 8, 2015 at 4:28 pm

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  How can one post a right-to-left post in the blog?
  For example, Hebrew or Arabic.
  Interface language change does not help to fix the issue of punctuation marks that are out of place.
  Thanks.

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

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  ariwinokur · Member · Jul 8, 2015 at 6:13 pm

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  At least when you using Google Chrome, you can right-click in the editor and choose “writing direction” from the menu and then choose “Right to Left” from the sub-menu. This will resolve the punctuation issues.

  Please let me know if you have any more questions.

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  andreich2718 · Member · Jul 8, 2015 at 6:21 pm

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  Thanks for the workaround.
  But I expect this functionality to be incorporated in WordPress editor.
  It`s a basic functionality by the way. And it will benefit millions of right-to-left language users.
  I know there is a plugin for this for wordpress.org.

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  helper-ringostarr · Member · Jul 8, 2015 at 6:36 pm

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  It’s hard to have a blog with both RTL and LTR content at the same time. If you change the blog language to a right-to-left one, it should look perfectly fine for RTL content, but then the LTR content might not be rendered optimally.

  If you need to combine both, then you’ll need to use some html tags. For example, something like this should work:
  <div dir="rtl">תוכן בעברית</div>

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  andreich2718 · Member · Jul 8, 2015 at 9:46 pm

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  Thanks.

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  alicht2014 · Member · Jul 9, 2015 at 5:54 am

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  To get decent results at reasonable effort you’ll have to use an RTL-compatible theme, edit your RTL/LTR text in a separate editor, and then paste the finalized text in WP. Things work well this way. The WP editor simply isn’t up for this job.

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  andreich2718 · Member · Jul 9, 2015 at 2:12 pm

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  Thanks again.