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13 Mar 2020, 05:55 PM | #1 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Israel
Posts: 1,060
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Will the Android app ever support right-to-left languages (e.g. Hebrew and Arabic)?
The app supports Unicode characters, but the paragraph direction is left-to-right and the text is left-aligned. Will this ever be fixed?
To understand the issue, this is how the Fastmail app handles typing Hebrew text (left aligned, punctuation on the wrong side), and this is how the Gmail app does it (correctly). BTW, I've been using Fastmail since 2002 and over the years convinced many friends and family member to become paying Fastmail customers. Most of them later switched to Gmail. One of the main reasons they mentioned was the lack of proper support for Hebrew in the Android app. |
14 Mar 2020, 08:30 AM | #2 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL
Posts: 1,659
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10 Apr 2020, 08:16 AM | #3 | |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Holon, Israel.
Posts: 4,799
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Lack of reasonable interface for the compose screen in the mobile app is the main reason I use it very little to send email: if it's not half a sentence or less it's not doable on the phone (a full sentence requires punctuation at the end). This is quite annoying because I do use the mobile app for reading mail, and I have to postpone replies until get to some computer that can handle paragraphs.
It's not that the mobile app does not support composition in html: it composes in html, and it's possible for instance to apply boldface or italicise or quote a paragraph using keyboard shortcuts (I can enter ctrl+letter combinations using hacker's keyboard, though it doesn't work with ctrl+shift+digit). keyboard shortcuts for right alignment and for switching between RTL and LTR would be enough (actually what may be best for me is to just be able to directly edit the html source. I do it sometimes when I compose using the desktop browsers capability to alter the page's source code). I asked Fastmail support about this issue about 3 years ago and this was their reply: Quote:
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