Writing Arabic emails under Thunderbird

Thunderbird is my favourite email client, I really love it.
The only problem I face is when writing an Arabic email, the problem is with changed the direction of text from “Left to Right” (ltr) to “Right to Left” (rtl).

The trick works like this:

• From the toolbar change the text alignment to the right.
• Double click on the line.
• The “Advanced Property Editor” will popup, it will allow you to add any custom attribute to the current section.
• In “Attribute” add “dir”, and in the “Value” add “rtl”.

I am sure we will have some short cut in the future, I know there is an extension for supporting “Right to Left” but I guess it is old, and I personally prefer built in support.

In Firefox you can use the short cut “CTRL+SHIFT+X” to change the direction.