Support RTL languages (e.g. Hebrew, Arabic, Persian) for editing and searching

Original request:

We would like to have support for Hebrew (RTL language) both in search and editing within documents as well.

This would include:

• support for changing text direction in the editor
• proper rendering of RTL text on Confluence pages
• support for text containing paragraphs or phrases with text in different directions (RTL and LTR)
• indexing and searching support for RTL languages.

Workaround

It is possible to create a user macro in Confluence to support inserting blocks of RTL text and displaying them properly. Ask your Confluence administration to define a new rtl user macro with the following contents, and an output format of HTML:

#set($globalHelper=$action.getHelper())
#set($renderer=$globalHelper.getWikiStyleRenderer())
#set($context=$content.toPageContext())
#set($renderedContent=$renderer.convertWikiToXHtml($context, "${body}"))
<div style="text-align: right; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: inherit;">${renderedContent}</div>

This can be used in the editor to indicate and properly format blocks of RTL text.

For Confluence 4.0 and higher, the following Macro needs to be used, as with the removal of wiki markup, the conversion from wiki to XHTML is no longer necessary. Make sure Rendered is selected as the Macro Processing option.

## @noparams
<div style="text-align: right; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: inherit;">${body}</div>