Problem with combining right-to-left languages with English

[Maya z]

Hi,

I'm using a right-to-left language (Hebrew) and often combine my cards with English words.

When I write the card everything is okay but once the card is displayed the whole order of the sentence is ruined.

I'm attaching here an example.

Correct order:

What appears when I see the card:

Thank you for the help,

Maya

[David Allison]

Hi Maya, thanks for getting in touch

Could you copy/paste the text you input into the Note Editor so we can test this out?

All the best,

David

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[David Allison]

Hi Maya,

We are discussing this issue: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/7767

For now, to resolve your problem:

• Edit a card
• Click "Cards"
• You will see a template (for example: "{{cloze::Text}}") on the front template of the card.
• Change this to: <span dir="rtl">{{cloze::Text}}</span>
• The preview and cards should now render correctly
• You'll need to do this once per card template - maybe 4/5 times if you use different types

All the best,

David

[Maya z]

A huge thank you! It did resolve the problem!

[Dotan Cohen]

Note that setting span dir="rtl" on the regular cloze template will manifest in problems with LTR cloze cards. Additionally, it does not resolve the issue of the text appearing wrong when creating the card.

I use a separate RTL cloze note type, with the cloze field marked as RTL. I see that AnkiDroid does not have facility for marking fields as RTL, so either you can create this type on the desktop or I can send to you an empty deck with this note type for you to import.