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I was watching Apple's 2022 video "Design for Arabic". In their weather application example, I found that they had two different representation of Degree symbol refer the image below. I ...
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I am implementing an IP address input field and I am wondering how it should work in right-to-left languages. An IP address (IPv4 to be specific) is four integer numbers split with the dot character, ...
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If our product uses an airplane icon like this one, do we mirror it for our RTL UI?
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I am implementing a star rating system for an app, which should support several RTL locales. Right now, when the user hovers over a star, all stars to the left of it are filled in, like so: ★☆☆☆☆, ...
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Assuming we have use a dropdown with a chevron to indicate that it is in fact a dropdown, does the position of the chevron change depending on the directionality of the language? I.E. does the chevron ...
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Most answers to this question say that for instance Arabic text should be aligned right-to-left even if the rest of the page is in a left-to-right script such as English. So, I was surprised to see ...
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I'm designing a bilingual app in the Middle East that's in both Arabic and English. I know that part of localizing an app is flipping the content (among other things). My question is, do you flip ...
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In a chat UI that displays RTL (Arabic, Hebrew etc). Should you mirror the UI so that messages you send appear on the left and the person replying to you appears on the right? Does whatsapp, ...
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These are two alternative layouts of a calendar on a hebrew-language site. Hebrew is written from right to left. Should we display the dates in the same way that the language is written (RTL), or ...
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We are working on RTL support in an application. One of the elements in our app is a progress bar that shows the number of slides of a deck that the users has completed, as well as a graphical ...
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We're workin' on a messaging application in our language (Persian), Persian is an RTL language and we reflect some default android buttons like "back" btn, in common msg application like "Telegram" or ...
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I am working on a website that has both an English and Arabic version, and the site has a lot of icons. Can I flip all images in right to left direction for the Arabic version as shown below?
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I'm designing an application for android and it needs a bottom navigation bar. The application is for Iranian users and so the language is Persian which is right to left. The question is how should be ...
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I have an app that displays a series of animation frames as thumbnails in a row from left to right. Should I display this from right to left if the device is set to use a right-to-left language? There ...
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Books printed for people that reads Right-To-Left (RTL) languages is bound for flipping pages opposite direction of LTR. What is todays common swipe direction when moving forward to next page/view, ...
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