RTL Text Direction Issue in Persian (Afghanistan) Projects

Hi,

After almost a decade of using Trados Studio for Persian (Iran) translations, I decided to test it with a Persian (Afghanistan) project today and encountered a significant RTL issue.
I wonder how this issue has gone unnoticed after multiple cumulative updates.
For Persian (Afghanistan), the target text direction is incorrectly rendered in LTR, while it should follow the standard RTL direction.
Persian (Afghanistan) generally follows the same RTL text direction rules as Persian (Iran).

Please see the screenshots below. I'm using Trados Studio 2024 - 18.0.1.2259
A useful sample file has been attached for your reference, allowing you to investigate the issue more effectively.

By the way, If there’s an opportunity to become an official beta tester for RTL languages (all products), I’d be happy to contribute. Screenshot of Trados Studio interface showing a translation project with English source text on the left and Persian target text on the right, displayed in left-to-right direction instead of right-to-left.
Close-up of Trados Studio settings showing language pair configuration with English (United States) as the source and Persian (Afghanistan) as the target language.

sample en-fa-AF.xliff.zip



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[edited by: RWS Community AI at 12:30 PM (GMT 0) on 24 Jan 2025]
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