User-Agent: Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 I live in Egypt and use Arabic as my default language. I use TB 0.5 and I have a little problem: when I write a new message in Arabic I choose Arabic(Windows-1256) character coding. I write the message the sellect the text and coose format >> Align >> Right (Arabic is written from right to left. when I try to receive the message I sent, I find that the characters are correct but the text is left aligned ! Is there a fix for thie? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. press 'Write button' 2. choose Arabic (windows-1256) character coding and then write the message. 3. select the text the m choose format > align > right and send the message. Actual Results: receive the message you sent, you will find all the text left aligned. Expected Results: the Arabic text should be right aligned.

The dupe is ostensibly about plain-text mail; however, there some information there about an extension that provides better UI for this for HTML mail. See also bug 96057. For HTML, there is a way to get there via the UI, not trivial but not hard: Format-> Page Colors and Background-> Advanced Edit-> HTML Attributes Attribute=dir; Value=rtl You can save a template with this setting, which you can then use to start a new message (by going to the Templates folder and double-clicking) -- unfortunately template support is sorely lacking, and you can't use a template for replies, forwards, or mailto: links. There are additional problem with this setting thru TB 0.7 and Moz 1.7, altho they've been fixed in current nightlies: 1) once you've set the 'dir' attribute in one HTML message, it will remain set for *some* later windows -- but opening a second compose window will revert to the previous setting. The "correct" behavior is to always revert to LTR for a new message, unless using a template (bug 249882). 2) when you save a template (or draft), the selected language encoding is lost unless there are characters in the text that require that encoding (bug 169761). In Bugzilla, the Browser 'product' has a "Layout: BiDi Hebrew and Arabic" component, and Mail/News has "BiDi Hebrew and Arabic". *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119857 ***