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RTL/BiDi text support across chat interfaces

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4 open items. Fix merged in #44596. Check it covers your case.

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3open issues
1open PR
11items grouped
Known?
Yes. 11 related items grouped here, 2 issues already closed.
Fix event
A fix was merged to main in PR #44596. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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The maintainers' tracker marks this partially resolved, deciding PR #44596. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
3 issues and 1 PR.

This group covers bug reports and feature work around right-to-left and bidirectional text rendering (Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu) in the web dashboard, desktop, and TUI chat interfaces. Topics include letter shaping, direction auto-detection heuristics, mixed RTL/LTR handling, and a manual toggle proposal.

Open issues3

  • Issue#29047Web dashboard: Arabic text in chat pane renders LTR with disconnected letters (no BiDi / no shaping)
  • Issue#41454feat(tui): full RTL/Bidi support for Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu text
  • Issue#51318RTL/Bidi: first-strong-character heuristic breaks mixed RTL/LTR technical text — propose majority-based detection + manual toggle

Open PRs1

  • PR#41462feat(tui): RTL/Bidi support for Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu text

Fixes on record

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  • #44596 feat(desktop): auto-detect RTL/bidi text direction in chat

    merged to main

    files: apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/user-message-text.tsx, apps/desktop/src/styles.css

4 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 2 · other 2

  • #41460 Show model when delegated tasks start · other → #41462, #41454, #34824
  • #44065 feat(desktop): per-message automatic RTL/bidi text direction · superseded by another PR → #44596
  • #44169 feat(desktop): auto-detect RTL paragraph direction in chat · superseded by another PR → #44596
  • #116432 feat(desktop): majority-vote BiDi with Vazirmatn Persian font · other
Closed issues · 2
  • Closed#44150[Feature]: Native RTL support for Arabic and mixed RTL/LTR text in Hermes Chat
  • Closed#58916[Bug]: Arabic/RTL text unreadable in web dashboard chat (no BiDi reordering or letter shaping)
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12 Jun 2026

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