Wait, it does ??tahW: How supporting Right-to-Left can expose your bad UX
summary
Supporting Right-to-Left reveals concrete failures: Wikipedia runs 285 content and 424 interface languages (~120,000 combinations) and confronting RTL surfaces broken assumptions about arrows, toolbars, number input and punctuation. The Unicode BiDi rules make digits and parentheses behave oddly; isolating user-generated strings fixes flipped notifications and dates; a CSS-flip pipeline and icon strategy (implemented with CSS Janus) plus a translation platform that handles plural and gender (Translate Wiki) and an explainer site (rtl.wtf) make RTL workable.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:43Wikipedia
- 5:19Mental model
- 6:32Wikipedia righttoleft
- 7:52Bidirectional algorithm
- 15:18Internationalization
- 16:06Examples
- 21:12Numbers
- 23:56Interface
- 28:12Usergenerated content
- 32:28Helpful tools
- 37:02Bonus
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