Right-to-left (RTL) language support

[tomisme]

Linked Discussion: #935

Questions:

• Do we mark blocks/pages etc. as being in 'RTL' mode or assume based on the string content?

Resources:

• https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-dir

[jefftangx]

If we can derive programmatically from Unicode then probably that.

[mr-islam]

Just wanted to leave a ping on this issue and show that there interest is for this!

Clearly Athens is still working towards full release so it's understandable for i18n to take a backseat. I18n entails fonts, sizing, translations and a lot of stuff.

But even simple RTL support (ie. just the document direction flipped) makes a world of difference for these languages, and would open Athens for a lot of people ❤️

[Hashemian01]

I believe Athens Research has the potential to deliver an authentic bi-directional RTL/LTR experience as each block can have its own direction property

[esm7]

I didn't dig very deep but noticed the repo depends on CodeMirror. If CodeMirror is heavily used as the editor, maybe it's possible to turn on its built-in RTL support and continue from there, similarly to Obsidian's RTL plugin.