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Why does Thunderbird not support RTL?

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Since updating over v60 I can't get RTL writing support with thunderbird. I find it ridiculous that an app needs a plugin to enable RTL support, let alone not support this plug in anymore. It's not like the editor doesn't support RTL by itself. I COULD add it as an HTML, but why should I? I can't use Thunderbird when RTL is not supported.

Since updating over v60 I can't get RTL writing support with thunderbird. I find it ridiculous that an app needs a plugin to enable RTL support, let alone not support this plug in anymore. It's not like the editor doesn't support RTL by itself. I COULD add it as an HTML, but why should I? I can't use Thunderbird when RTL is not supported.

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Are you referring to BiDi Mail UI? The latest version supports TB 60, and has for a year.

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Yes I am referring to BiDi Mail UI. Why won't Thunderbird support this out of the box? It's just adding a direction button, that's all.

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Perhaps you could file a bug requesting it. But perhaps you might follow the existing bugs.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1259715 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119857

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This was "Reported: 18 years ago. Modified: 8 years ago". This is ridiculous, I officially give up.

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sniff said

This was "Reported: 18 years ago. Modified: 8 years ago". This is ridiculous, I officially give up.

I have no official position

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Matt said

sniff said
This was "Reported: 18 years ago. Modified: 8 years ago". This is ridiculous, I officially give up.

I have no official position

I was referring to the team. Thank you for the help!! Appreciate it.