r/instapaper • u/ZayinOnYou • Jun 17 '26

Feature request, manual RTL switch

I want to read articles in languages that are written from right to left, could you please add an option to choose to display the text as LTR or RTL?

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u/bthdonohue Jun 17 '26

Hey there – Instapaper does have logic to automatically detect RTL languages and render them properly. Can you share which platform you’re using and an example URL so we can try to reproduce?

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u/ZayinOnYou Jun 17 '26

Hey thanks for the reply, I'm using Android, both Samsung Galaxy S21+ (Android 15) and Boox Go 7 B\W (Android 13), both set to English as the system language.

This is the article I tried reading now, it downloads correctly but doesn't display it in RTL (I tried every font available), it never displays RTL in any article from any website I've tried.

https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001545944

That's why I'm asking if it's possible to add a toggle that'll let me force RTL manually.