RTL support ?

[belghiti]

Hello Devs,

There is a way for this amazing package to support Right To Left languages ?

[JaredReisinger]

This is an interesting question/suggestion! I am really the only dev, and I personally don't write in any RTL languages. That said, I do have some follow-up questions:

• Would you expect RTL to be automatically detected?
• Would you ever want to mix RTL and LTR in the same puzzle?

I can envision a solution where there's a puzzle-wide-level "RTL" setting that changes the "across" answers to render RTL, and where typing advances to the left instead of to the right. (And then I can test it with RTL English, which is easier for me to think about.) I don't know if the clues would also need some kind of adjustment in order to render as RTL, or if that's automatically happening already thanks to browsers being RTL-aware.

[belghiti]

Yes it can be a global setting or just a prop 'dir' or 'lang' with a default value of 'ltr' to the Crossword component.
When 'rtl' is enabled, the advance have to be from The right to left and the position of the clue number in the cell will then change.

data sample: data = {
across: {
1: {
clue: 'واحد زائد واحد',
answer: 'اثنين',
row: 0,
col: 0,
},
3: {
clue: 'اثنين ناقص واحد',
answer: 'واحد',
row: 0,
col: 6,
},
},
down: {
2: {
clue: 'اثنين زائد اثنين',
answer: 'أربعة',
row: 0,
col: 4,
},
},
};

I am a dev too but I couldn't find where to make changes for this to work.
Feel free to ask If there is something I can hep with.

Thanks,