RTL vs LTR

You can try this as a temporary solution:
edit your FCKeditor profile, go to "Advanced options" -> "Custom javascript configuration" and add:

ContentLangDirection = 'rtl';

let me know if that worked.

We could do this automatically by looking at the language object or providing a configuration option. I'm adding this as a feature request for further investigation.

If I get it correctly, FCKLang.Dir is only used for the GUI elements and ContentLangDirection is used for the content. This is purely FCKeditor, so you've got to file a bug with them if you want to change this behavior.

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The solution described in the #1 worked for me

but, I have a site that needs to add both hebrew & english articles, so i need this to be more flexible

my question is, is it possible to add buttons for RTL & LTR for a section so it will be dynamic
the button will add dir="rtl" or dir="ltr" for section selected

Thanks

@avior: does "Style" button solve your problem? Try adding this button to your toolbar.
Style definitions are in fckstyles.xml, there are 4 LTR/RTL style definitions available as an example.

I have committed just a while ago a small chunk of code that adds automatic RTL support to FCKeditor module in 6--2 branch (requires "Locale" module to work).
It should be available tomorrow as a FCKeditor 6.x-2.x-dev package (click on a "View all releases" link to see it).
Please note that 6.x-2.x-dev is unstable, untested and so on. It contains some nice new features however (see CHANGELOG.txt for more details), so if anyone is willing to give it a try, please test it and let me know what's your opinion.

Hi
Thanks , This is working ok

can i add custom buttons to the toolbar to make this functionality easier to use ?

Ok, marking it as fixed. Any RTL/LTR users if you still think that RTL support could be improved, feel free to reopen this ticket and write your suggestions (remember that automatic RTL support is in 6.x-2.x).

@avior: you can create your own plugin that adds such button. There is no chance that such button will be available in FCKeditor 2.6.3 (http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/809). However, in CKEditor 3.x there should be much more plugins created by community so there is a chance that someone will create such button in place of select box with styles. If you want to create your own plugin for FCKeditor, you may want to take a look at the following sites:

http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x/Developers_Guide/Customization/P... (scroll down to a link with sample plugins, it's always easier to work having some working examples)
http://www.fckeditor.net/forums

Hello & sorry to re-open this issue for a 5.x-2.2 case.

Wrote a tiny module to update direction, ltr or rtl, in the fckeditor_settings table based $locale value. Now it is invoked on each page load and it works.

To improve performance, what condition should be used to load that module? In other words: would be good to invoke it only for pages where for which the fckeditor is loaded

Hi
I think that automatic paragraph direction is wrong
The client should be in control what directionality is applied to his paragraph , in other words you can write a lrt paragraph even if your site is rtl

one solution is to use http://drupal.org/project/pdir that do this automatic by the first word of the paragraph
another (and the most common is to use buttons to let the user decide, this is missing in the default installation of this module)

In RLT site I think it is better to have the direction RTL by default and in LTR let it to be LTR. And also a direction button is what we should have in toolbars.

If anybody is interested, on CKEditor the config line mentioned in #1 is:
config.contentsLangDirection = 'rtl';

As it may, I would rather have a RTL and LTR paragraph buttons. We used to have them on tinyMCE, there are easily made enabled on the wordpress' mce for example. That would solve a lot of problems (and of course still control which is the default directionality state).