Add full RTL (Right-To-Left) text direction support for Arabic & Hebrew users

Resolved 💬 6 comments Opened Oct 27, 2025 by nad3rzz Closed Jan 31, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What feature would you like to see?

Please add native RTL support in Codex and Chat panels.
Arabic text currently renders incorrectly (alignment and punctuation).
A simple fix with dir="auto" and unicode-bidi: plaintext works well — I’ve tested it using a JavaScript

Additional information

Tested in VS Code on Windows.
Here’s the JS snippet I used for temporary RTL correction:

rtl.js

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6 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 10 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #5826

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steveepreston · 8 months ago

+1 on VSCode Plugin too

etraut-openai contributor · 6 months ago

This feature request has not received enough upvotes in the past two months, so I'm going to close it.

yehuda-lev · 4 months ago

Please, it's very importent!
i can't see clearly the content

mirismaili · 4 months ago

For Persian users, too.

nad3rzz · 3 months ago

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Nad3r.agents-rtl
https://github.com/nad3rzz/agents-rtl

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