Incorrect justification for right to left languages

[Eric Bar-Chen]

I am in Israel and send some mails in Hebrew (a right to left language)

K-9 has no problems sending mails in Hebrew but it justifies everything to the left instead of to the right. This means that inserting punctuation, numbers, English letters or words, or anything else that is not Hebrew causes the whole message to become unreadable.

When I write a message it looks fine but when it arrives the problem occurs.

The strange thing is that if I receive a mail in Hebrew it appears OK, which means that the app does have encoding for Hebrew.

I have tried sending mail which I then read on Outlook 2013, Gmail app on my phone and Gmail on my PC. The problem occurs with all of them.

This seems to be a problem with many apps. Any help would be appreciated

[Seth H Holmes]

Does this also happen if the whole message is Hebrew?

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Seth H Holmes
Sent from my Nexus 7 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

[Bar-Chen Family]

Hi Seth

Yes, but only the punctuation moves. So if I write a sentence with a period at the end , the period moves to the beginning of the line. However, if, after the period, I keep writing on the same line, it's OK. This is a general problem for all programmes that aren't fully equipped to deal with right to left languages. One of the few programmes that has solved it is Google in Gmail, but even Microsoft still has problems with this.

For example, when I receive pop up messages from Microsoft on my PC in Hebrew with some English terms mixed in, the whole thing is a complete mess.

 

Following is a screenshot of a test mail I sent so you can see how it arrived

 

In the 1^st and 2^nd line the question mark went back to the beginning of the line

In the 3^rd line it stayed in place after I wrote something else

In the 4^th line the period went back to the beginning of the line

Everything was justified to the left

 

If I select "reply", I can then edit the reply by selecting right justification and it all goes back to normal, but I can't do this when reading the incoming mail.

 

Hope this clarifies the problem

 

Eric

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[Seth H Holmes]

If there is no punctuation, does it still left justify?

My theory here is that the introduction of western characters (and in this case, punctuation is falling into that category) is causing the behavior. But your said it looks fine when composing so it's unclear I'd the issue is on the sending or receiving end.

Although some of the background you have makes me think it's sending.