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Right to left (الكتابة من اليمين إلى اليسار): A writing direction used in several languages, including Arabic, Hebrew and Persian. In these scripts, text is written and read from the right side of the page to the left, which is the opposite of the left-to-right direction used in languages like English.

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Fixing Arabic Font Issues in LibreOffice

There is an annoying behavior in LibreOffice: if the system language (English) differs from the writing language (Arabic), the font cannot easily be changed. A new extension by Mejlad Alsubaie, a developer from Kuwait, addresses this issue.