Re: Thunderbird with RTL?

[Thamer Mahmoud <neokuwait at hotmail dot com>]

Moustafa Elqabbany writes:
 > Assalamu alaikum.
 >  
 > I tried using Mozilla Thunderbird for composing Arabic email.  It
 > was generally acceptable, but lacked (as far as I can tell)
 > right-to-left capability.  The Arabic was fine, and it was even
 > right-justified, but because the direction of the text was ltr,
 > punctuation appeared on the left-hand side of the sentence.  I'm
 > not interested in an Arabic interface for Thunderbird.  All I'm
 > looking for is an RTL option.  Outlook Express has such a thing.
 > Any ideas?  Anyone know of any better email clients?  Multiple IMAP
 > and POP account support is a must.
 >  

I came across this bug some times ago, and it looks related to what's
you're experiencing. I don't use Thunderbird nor Mozilla Mail, so I
can't really say. There are a couple workarounds mentioned but none of
them seem to fully address the problem.

Have a look:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119857


Regards,

- Thamer Mahmoud