[FEATURE] RTL text direction / right-alignment support in the chat panel (VSCode extension)
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 2, 2026 by assafbiton1000
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Problem Statement
Support for RTL text direction and right-alignment in the chat panel, ideally:
- Auto-detect the dominant text direction per message/paragraph (similar to how most modern chat UIs and browsers handle bidi text), or
- A user-configurable setting (e.g. in
settings.json) such as"chatTextDirection": "rtl" | "ltr" | "auto"that controls alignment and direction in the chat panel.
Proposed Solution
I currently avoid mixing Latin technical terms mid-sentence in Hebrew responses to reduce bidi-rendering breakage, but this is a workaround on the content side — it doesn't fix the underlying rendering direction of the panel itself.
This would primarily benefit Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, and other RTL-language users of the VSCode extension.
Alternative Solutions
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Priority
Critical - Blocking my work
Feature Category
CLI commands and flags
Use Case Example
<img width="353" height="876" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3a650174-36cb-4d03-b21a-f87dff57f0cd" />
Additional Context
This would primarily benefit Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, and other RTL-language users of the VSCode extension.