Why candles are never mirrored
Candle order represents the sequence of time, and time does not change with language. Mirroring the time axis makes every technical read wrong: uptrends look like downtrends, patterns invert, and comparing against any other platform becomes impossible. So the plot area is treated as a fixed physical picture and only what surrounds it mirrors.
Arabic UI (dir=rtl) English UI (dir=ltr) ┌──────────┬──────────────┬────┐ ┌────┬──────────────┬──────────┐ │ watchlist│ plot →time │tool│ │tool│ plot →time │ watchlist│ │ (right) │ price axis →│rail│ │rail│ price axis →│ (right) │ └──────────┴──────────────┴────┘ └────┴──────────────┴──────────┘ chrome mirrors · plot direction and price axis never do
What mirrors and what stays
Candle order
- In Arabic
- left to right
- Rule
- never mirrored
Price axis
- In Arabic
- on the right
- Rule
- fixed in both languages
Time axis
- In Arabic
- bottom, from the left
- Rule
- fixed in both languages
Watchlist
- In Arabic
- on the right
- Rule
- mirrors with language
Tool rail
- In Arabic
- on the left
- Rule
- mirrors with language
Text and headings
- In Arabic
- right-aligned
- Rule
- mirrors with language
Mixed numbers: the most common localisation bug
When Arabic text sits beside Latin numbers and symbols such as 86,045.71 USD on one line, the browser's BIDI algorithm reorders runs in ways you did not intend. Two rules fix it: isolate every numeric value in its own element with an explicit direction, and avoid neutral punctuation between a Latin run and an Arabic run on the same line.
- ▸Every price, percentage or timestamp lives in a dedicated element with a monospace face and an explicit direction, so the decimal separator stays put.
- ▸Corporate names and marks such as ChartXpert, Inc. are isolated LTR to stop the period jumping to the start of the line.
- ▸Stats strips are written as pure Latin text, because mixing Arabic words with numbers in one narrow line confuses ordering.
- ▸Alignment uses logical properties (start / end) rather than hard left and right, so one layout file is correct in both languages.
Fonts and digits
The interface uses one Arabic family for text and a monospace family for numbers, symbols and text diagrams. Tabular monospace digits stop columns from jittering as prices update every second — a detail you notice immediately in a live trading panel.