RTL (Right-to-Left) text is rendered incorrectly as LTR
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Domain
- desktop, internationalization
Research direction
No source file or test is identified in the report. Start by reproducing the issue in the ChatGPT Desktop application with Persian or another RTL language, using feedback ID no-active-thread-019f65a5-5d4f-7423-85ee-6d1e63f5d241; done means RTL paragraphs, mixed RTL/LTR text, alignment, punctuation, code, numbers, and cursor behavior render correctly.
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Description
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Pro
What platform is your computer?
x64
What issue are you seeing?
When using the ChatGPT Desktop application, right-to-left (RTL) languages such as Persian (Farsi) are not rendered correctly.
Instead of displaying the text from right to left, the application lays out the content as left-to-right (LTR), causing punctuation, mixed English/Persian text, code snippets, and paragraph alignment to appear incorrectly.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Feedback ID: no-active-thread-019f65a5-5d4f-7423-85ee-6d1e63f5d241
What is the expected behavior?
- RTL paragraphs should be rendered with proper right-to-left direction.
- Mixed RTL/LTR text (e.g., Persian with English words, code, or numbers) should follow the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm and display correctly.
- Text alignment and cursor behavior should match standard RTL text rendering.
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