Arabic RTL chat text renders with broken BiDi layout on Windows

[Colin]

Hey @moeyd_alwazzan!

This is a known, long-standing issue. Some community members have developed their own workarounds that might be worth taking a look at.

Add RTL for chat

Hi @EbrahimH and the others, After facing this exact same issue, I took some time to invest in a solution (should be easy when using Cursor ) I wrote an extension that understands the structure of the Chats window and the Plans Markdown window and applies RTL when needed. The extension is smart; it detects which language the sentence starts in and applies the alignment accordingly. For now, the installation is only using a VSIX file. Please see the instructions here: Cursor RT…

Arabic + English mixed text is visually reordered incorrectly in Cursor Chat (RTL/LTR issue)

Hey, thanks for the detailed report. This is a known limitation. The chat panel doesn’t properly support RTL or BiDi text rendering right now, which is why you’re seeing that word order issue when Arabic and English are mixed. A lot of users have already asked us to fix this. There’s a feature request thread with more context here: Add RTL for chat For now, there are community fixes that add RTL styles to the chat panel: GitHub - mrezadalaee/cursor-rtl-chat-fix: Fixes RTL text rendering is…