Articles reporting text direction as ltr even for rtl feeds

[cachapa]

I had a report from an Arabic-speaking user saying that our app wasn't formatting RTL (right-to-left) text properly.

I've managed to somewhat fix the problem on our end, but unfortunately auto-detecting text direction isn't reliable so we must depend on the reported direction coming from the API.

It seems that The Old Reader always reports LTR for all articles, regardless of feed.

Here's a particularly thorny example:

http://arbdroid.com/?feed=rss2

It's a tech blog and therefore mixes Arabic script with LTR product names, which in some cases breaks auto-detection.

[krasnoukhov]

Thanks for report. We've added RTL detection. Please note that it's available per-entry only in JSON version, there is no place for it in Atom format, according to our knowledge of Google Reader unofficial API.

[cachapa]

I can confirm that it's working well now.
Thanks again for the quick turnaround.