Forum Discussion
Right to left language In Rise
Hi
I am developing courses in Arabic Language. I just started using Articulate 360. I tried to add content using Rise. I could add Arabic text, but I faced many issues.
- Numbering and bullet list come left the text. As Arabic is a right-to-left language, it should be right.
- Text alignment also is left to right
- Navigation Bar is left
- No Arabic fonts available, I could only use the default one.
Could anyone help me solve the problem?
Regards
Sheikh Maawiya
145 Replies
Hi Ahmed,
We do not have plans to include right-to-left support in Rise 360 right now. If our plans change and we decide to add this feature to our roadmap, we'll let you know.
This is really rather disappointing, considering the amount of people that have requested this feature and the amount of time that has passed since the first request.
I second that.
what about the arabic support for rise ? still not working in arabic ? RTL
Thanks to Raphael Cominelli for sharing!
This was very helpful to us in delivering a translated presentation to our customer. I would like to ask: Does anyone has a translated xlf file with labels in arabic?
Best regards,
Henrik
I really appreciate Raphael's workaround, but would also echo the request that has been made here by many earlier for rise to prioritize rtl-support as a standard feature in its coming upgrade.
Hi there,
I would also like to add my vote for Articulate to further investigate this option, as RTL text is an increasingly important aspect of ensuring access for our learners. I truly hope that this is on the roadmap somewhere as our ideal is to purchase licenses for our organisation, but without RTL we cannot do that.
We have found some issues with Image Carousel, Quote Carousel, Stacked Flash Cards and Process blocks.
There might be also some other blocks (we have not yet tried all of them).
For some blocks we saw inconsistencies with previous and next buttons ("<" and ">" arrows).
Dear all,
Unfortunately, although more than three years have passed since the first request for the management of RTL languages, an integrated solution in Rise does not yet appear to be available.
As previously mentioned by Dominik, since the beginning of the year, in our course offer we manage 2 RTL languages and after several attempts the following is currently the best temporary solution to which I have arrived.
Also be aware that this solution still does not work perfectly with all blocks.
Please let me know if anyone has comments or suggestions.
Regards,
Raphael
Rise RTL workaround- Export course from Articulate Rise (I tested it using TinCan format)
- Unzip the downloaded file
- Locate the
index.htmlfile and open it for editing- Change the <HTML> tag:
from:<html lang="en" class="">
to:<html lang="ar" class="" dir="rtl">for Arabic
or to:<html lang="he" class="" dir="rtl">for Hebrew - Save and close the
index.htmlfile
- Change the <HTML> tag:
- Locate the
main.bundle.cssfile inlibfolder and open it for editing- Copy all its content
- Put it in the
INPUTpane on https://rtlcss.com/playground/# (this link will bring you to a third party website) - Copy the content of the
OUTPUTpane - Replace content of
main.bundle.css - Save and close
main.bundle.css
- Compress the main folder to create a new copy of the zip file
- Upload the new zip file to your LMS
how can I export a file using Tincan format?
my options are only LMS, PDF , web...
Thanks a lot, works really well
Thanks Raphael, which blocks is is still not working on?
Any update on this? I have imported an Arabic Translated XLF file and it shows Right to Left as it was edited by an native speaker in his own country. When previewed, it switches to left to right.
I go through all of the text in the document to change it from Right to Left but the full stops and bullet points etc do not get effected by this.
Any update on Right to Left languages?
Any kind of update would be helpful. In January we have added Hebrew to our language portfolio, which makes a right-to-left support even more important.
An additional suggestion for Articulate team: Have you considered releasing RTL support as a "beta" feature, even if it does not give 100% perfect results? We are tweaking the CSS files, which works quite well and maybe this could be an option.
Rise is a fantastic tool and it is a shame that we cannot use its full potential.
Hey Dominik, as rtl translations are a necessity for us, we can only use a limited number of block types when implementing the dir="RTL" attribute in the CSS once published. Do you have any guidelines or recommendations for tweaking the CSS or considerations for rtl language implementation?
Hi Dorrien, Unfortunately I am not the CSS expert in our team. I know that we also had issues with some of the blocks. Let me check with my colleagues, they should be able to give a proper answer.
Agreed. This product feature request has been running for over 3 years.
