Right-to-left Text Support

[CharlieGordonnn]

By regular chatting, did you mean the legacy chat service or the new chat service? Could you please provide a screenshot? Thank you!

[GFink]

@CharlieGordonnn

I guess for your case, what we really need is a way to control the direction of the rich text tags which we currently do not support.

The problem with RichText tags seems to be that they are considered LTR text by the text direction interpreter. I wonder if that interpreter could instead use a sanitized version of the text which doesn’t have the RichText tags? They seem to mess up the process of determining text direction.

[MasterAtTheWings]

sorry if im late but, i learned a bit of html lol!

[CharlieGordonnn]

@GFink , thanks for your input, I will talk with our language specialist about this issue. It seems html does support changing a <div> to layout from right to left.

[arabizee]

Hello,

Thank you very much for bringing these RTL text styling issues within text labels to our attention. Your detailed report and thorough testing are invaluable to us, and we truly appreciate the effort you’ve put into documenting this matter.

We’ve successfully reproduced the bugs based on the scenarios you outlined, which confirms the need for a closer examination and action on our part. I’ll be collaborating directly with our engineering team to delve into these issues and work towards implementing a fix. Your findings have been instrumental in highlighting these challenges, and we’re committed to improving the platform’s handling of RTL text for all developers.

While I’m unable to provide a specific timeline for a solution at this moment, please rest assured that addressing this is a priority for us. We understand the importance of this issue and its impact on creating inclusive and accessible games and experiences on Roblox.

Thank you once again for your contribution and patience. We’ll keep the community updated on our progress.

Best regards,

[hydr0h0mie]

Hey Creators!

We’re excited to announce that starting today, Roblox will be fully localized into Arabic, and you’ll also be able to translate your experience into Arabic with automatic translation. This includes in-experience strings, game products, experience names, and experience descriptions - however, please note that Arabic is not yet supported for Studio, Creator Hub, and chat translation.

If your experience already had automatic translation enabled for all the languages that we support, we have turned on Arabic automatic translation support for you already. We are still in the process of rolling out translations, so it may take a few days for them to appear in your experience.

Note: If you don’t have all auto translate languages enabled, or if you manually added Arabic as a supported language prior to this launch but would like to use Arabic automatic translation, you can do so in the Localization Portal in Creator Hub by setting Arabic as a supported language and enabling automatic translation.

Arabic is a right-to-left language, so you may need to enable some settings in Studio to make sure text renders correctly for players. These settings should be enabled by default, but you can follow the instructions in the original post below to make sure your experience is configured correctly.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions. We’ll continue to work on improving our right-to-left support and our machine translation quality so that any player, regardless of the language they speak, can enjoy Roblox to its fullest.

Thank you.

[Ahmitey (Joe_Bloxburg)]

Will there be different arabic fonts?

[8xD4n]

Is there ETA for Hebrew to be supported?