Native Arabic & RTL Support | Voters

Native Arabic & RTL Support

teddy aouad

Issue: No native transcription or Right-to-Left (RTL) alignment. 
Impact: Pasted text breaks; dynamic captions are unusable for the MENA market.  
Ask: Provide a definitive roadmap for Arabic support.

April 23, 2026

Saud Alzarooni

I can confirm this issue in a real Arabic video project. The transcript itself is correct, but Descript captions render Arabic words and punctuation in the wrong order. Changing alignment from center to right only changes text placement and does not fix bidirectional text rendering. There is also no RTL or text-direction control in the advanced caption properties.

This makes dynamic captions unusable for professional Arabic and MENA content. Please add native RTL/bidirectional support for Arabic captions, including correct handling of word order, punctuation, and numbers.