Still very WIP, but I am revamping the Obsidian UI for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Dhivehi, Hebrew, Farsi, Syriac, Urdu.

So many questions I had never thought about:

- Which way does a "back" arrow go?
- Do progress bars fill RTL?  
- Are slashes in paths reversed?
- Do window buttons get mirrored?

making /obsidian • writing stephango.com

This has been an eye-opening experience as someone who is not RTL native.

Using start/end values rather than left/right is something I will be thinking about with every project going forward.

I'm an Arabic native speaker, I still prefer the English UI, I think so many people have the same use case, For Arabic notes I care only about the flow direction within the note, the bullet points, the list items the tables etc. Also using both Arabic and English in the same note (Journals) is something I do often.

Obsidian

- As "Back Arrow", communicates direction as an icon, is mirrored: so "LTR".
- Yes. B/c its a representation of content flow (the way content fills), so better fill RTL.
- Seems subjective. Not much to say, but we can think of it as a dot "." . There is no time element in it.
- Same as 3.

TY for building /obsidian