Support for Persian Language (spoken by more than 100 million people)

[darrudi]

It's pitty there is no support for right-to-left languages like Persian in Brat.

Brat's ease-of-use and rich features are unmatched and we really long to have it for Persian.

Although I saw another thread asking for Arabic and Hebrew support to no avail, I just want to emphasis the issue in case the Brat team intends to prioritize RTL support.

BTW: there is mediocre workaround for those interested in RTL support. Instead of SPACE you can use a special Unicode character as the token separator (for Persian U+037A will do) to deceive the browser and make it believe it's dealing with a LTR language. This way the browser does not mess the sentence representation and all features will be available.

The only (big) problem is that you have to read sentences in reverse order all the time! :)

Ehsan Darrudi

[spyysalo]

Thank you for the suggestion and workaround. I agree that this would be a very valuable feature, but I'm afraid I can't promise any specific schedule.

Assigning @amadanmath . Closely related: #774

[ghost]

Closing in favour of #774.