For what it's worth, you can make the Arabic translation "more native" by adding a "dir=rtl" attribute to the text area, though it's still not quite right. Or

For what it's worth, you can make the Arabic translation "more native" by adding a "dir=rtl" attribute to the text area, though it's still not quite right. Or you can leave in in LTR mode and put an LRM (in JS, "\u200e") after each word to make it just look like the English with all the words swapped out. Both point at the underlying problem that translation is not a matter of just swapping out the words. For example, the mathematical notation that most programming languages rely upon is fundamentally left to right (much in the same way the keywords are English). See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Arabic_mathematical_notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Arabic_mathematical_nota... (which I just discovered!) and also http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-math/ http://www.w3.org/TR/arabic-math/