![in[4]:= Grid[{#, Lookup[WikipediaData[Entity["Person", "BarackObama::7yj6w"], "TitleTranslationRules"], #]} & /@ {"Cherokee", "Arabic", "Chinese", "Japanese", "Korean", "Mongolian", "Sanskrit"}, Alignment -> Left, Frame -> All] Out[4]:= A table of name of Barak Obama in different languages. Arabic text is rendered unjoined left-to-right. in[4]:= Grid[{#, Lookup[WikipediaData[Entity["Person", "BarackObama::7yj6w"], "TitleTranslationRules"], #]} & /@ {"Cherokee", "Arabic", "Chinese", "Japanese", "Korean", "Mongolian", "Sanskrit"}, Alignment -> Left, Frame -> All] Out[4]:= A table of name of Barak Obama in different languages. Arabic text is rendered unjoined left-to-right.](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi18nfails.1a23.studio%2Fapi%2Fmedia%2Ffile%2Fimage-14.png%3F2025-02-07T14%3A58%3A25.449Z&w=3840&q=100)
“Right-to-left” errors occur when UI frameworks fail to reverse direction of text and other UI elements for languages like Arabic or Hebrew. A dialog meant to read “Confirm” in Arabic (تأكيد) may instead appear left-aligned and distorted (ﺕﺃﻙﻱﺩ)—breaking layouts because the bidi algorithm wasn’t applied.