Composing Hebrew Messages in GMail
August 22, 2006 – 3:35 amHebrew support in GMail is a bit problamatic. You can align the text to the right and start typing in hebrew, but when you enter numbers or punctuation marks the text gets flipped. For example, you can’t end a sentence with a period, because the period jumps to the beginning of the line…
I found a simple workaround for this problem. First, align the text to the right as before. Then type in a hebrew word (e.g. you can enter your name if you use it as a signature). Press ‘Home’, and hit ‘Enter’ several times. Move up to the empty lines above the text and start typing. Problem solved!
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2 Responses to “Composing Hebrew Messages in GMail”
Excellent! It also works in ThunderBird!
I’ve been annoyed by Thunderbird’s heb support for a while, u have made me slightly happier
By Ran on Apr 6, 2007
There’s a FireFox add-on which adds text direction buttons (as opposed to alignment) to GMail. It works great for me.
By Dan Elharrar on Jun 1, 2007