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[oronm]

i have been waiting for a long time for it :/

[mindgames]

Just came here to check if rtl language support had improved any since I first used evernote - which was soon after its initial release (IIRC). Its lack of Arabic support was what limited its usefulness for me and led to my stopping to use it altogether, and seems - from your post - things haven't changed very much, which is a shame.

[amirmasoudabdol]

I wish I could type RTL in Evernote. It's not too hard for implementation but don't know why Evernote doesn't do it.

[hershalle]

I don't use evernote just because it doesn't support RTL - please, it's a simple feature

[predatorftp]

WE WANT RTL SUPPORT !!!

Please for the love of god do something about Hebrew and Arabic support in Evernote it's ridiculous to ignore so many users around the world.

I vote YES for RTL support.

Thanks

[jbenson2]

predatorftp said:

Please for the love of god do something about Hebrew and Arabic support in Evernote it's ridiculous to ignore so many users around the world.

I doubt that Evernote is purposely ignoring this request.
But I would guess that Right to Left computer instructions must be a bear with 14+ different platforms to code.

[BurgersNFries]

predatorftp said:

WE WANT RTL SUPPORT !!!

Please for the love of god do something about Hebrew and Arabic support in Evernote it's ridiculous to ignore so many users around the world.

I vote YES for RTL support.

Thanks

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jefito said:

Just a side comment on this: there are any number of features that would improve Evernote to some degree, but nothing comes for free (i.e., development resources are finite, as is time). The job of the Evernote folks is to determine which of those improvements would help out a significant number of their customers, in an achievable amount of time. Some demonstrably useful features just don't make the cut at all, while others are delayed. That's the nature of the game.

[iafanasyev]

We are currently evaluating the ability to add RTL support to our applications (RTL input at least). But that's a pretty serious engineering task for us provided that none of us at Evernote know any RTL language. But we do hear you.

[myoffe]

Another upvote for RTL support here.

It's really holding me, as well as a huge part of the globe, from using Evernote.

[gbarry]

You check out some digging we did in General Discussion? Chrome supports RTL, which can be used with the web app.

[Eli Marmor]

Hello,

I'm happy to see this thread goes on, and want to join the wish to have Hebrew/Arabic support in general, and RTL support particularly.

But for most of us, Hebrew (and probably also Arabic) speakers, there is a need which is even more important:

Hebrew (and Arabic) support for the Printed Text Recognition (OCR).

Most of the computer users in Israel, learned to work even with English GUI, and even without official RTL support (by the way, we call it "BiDi" - for Bi-Directional, because it's much more complicated than just reversing the direction). There are always workarounds, quick and dirty tricks, etc. Moreover, many texts work perfectly even with no RTL support (for example, Hebrew texts without Latin letters in the middle).

Users will prefer supported software, but when there is no other choice, will try to use non-supported.

But in any software, there are things that can't be worked-around.
In your case, it's the Printed Text Recognition.
I think that it's the most important feature of Evernote, which makes it unique. Almost any other feature of Evernote, if you search, you will find other products that do it, but this is not the case with Printed Text Recognition, which broaden the support of Evernote to pictures, scanned documents, old faxes, etc.

I wouldn't raise this issue if it would require a lot of efforts. But as a user of Abbyy, the OCR engine behind the Printed Text Recognition of Evernote, I can tell you that its Hebrew support is great!

This need is so critical, that I bet that you can check and find how many Israelis use Evernote today. While Israelis are only 0.1% of the world population, they hold almost 1% of the software market. But in your case, I'm sure that even 0.1% is a far target, and the main reason is the lack of support for the OCR. It's like the chicken-and-the-egg story: Evernote doesn't really interest Israelis, because it lacks this critical feature. It's true even for me: I started using it with a lot of hopes, and even tried to open a local meetup, but stopped everything because of this reason.

I'm well known in Israel for software localization, own a company active in this field, I'm the inventor of many patents in the RTL/BiDi/localization field, and already localized more than 100 software products, for companies such as Oracle, HP, IBM, Silicon-Graphics, CA, Siemens, etc.

If you need any help or advice in order to have Hebrew support for Printed Text Recognition, I'll be happy to help!

Thanks!

[The IceMan Blog]

+1 for BiDi support

[mercavah]

I am absolutely helpless without the RTL support in Evernote!
All my work worth nothing if this software will not develop a possibility of RTL editing !
Why Microsoft can and you can't ?

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[heather]

http://discussion.ev...n-evernote-web/

[ASolodoff]

+1 for BiDi support!!!

[finedesign]

I also need Arabic support. My entire business workflow could use Evernote if not for this one serious missing element.

[ASolodoff]

I think it will not happen. Moving to OneNote. They are using built in android RTL support and they have RTL support in Windows.

[The IceMan Blog]

The back-end of the note is HTML
so how had it is to add an option to add the dir="rtl" attribute to the top div tag ?

right now i'm using the open source client NexNote and edit the source of each note when i need the Right-To-Left support