Meet the needs of audiences who use languages such as Arabic or Urdu by adapting your user interface to accommodate the right-to-left (RTL) text direction. By localizing your application into RTL languages, you expand your user base and provide native RTL language speakers with an interface that is friendly and intuitive.

Pega Platform uses tools built into Java and HTML to automatically handle RTL conversion based on the user's (operator) locale. When you assign an RTL language as the default for an operator, that operator sees the application in RTL alignment, with menus on the right, and breadcrumbs arranged right-to-left. If you do not set a default language for the operator, the system sources it from the browser's region settings.

Note: The system handles font sizes and layout alignment automatically, but does not reverse icons. You can provide RTL versions of left-to-right (LTR) icons by saving them under the same name followed by _rtl. For example, an LTR name.png icon has an RTL counterpart name_rtl.png that the application displays in RTL locales.