An Arabic email client that is actually mirrored

What mirrored actually means

Switch the interface to Arabic and the whole page turns around. The mailbox list moves to the right, the reading pane to the left, arrows point the other way, and progress, swipes and keyboard focus all run right to left. Nothing stays behind facing the old direction, because the layout is written in logical properties — start and end rather than left and right — so direction is a single attribute on the document rather than a second stylesheet.

Numbers and dates come from the browser's own internationalisation data, formatted for Arabic but with Western digits, which is what readers in most Arabic-speaking markets expect in a business tool.

• Interface in Arabic, French or English, switched in one click from the header.
• The document carries the language and the direction, so screen readers announce it correctly.
• The ten colour themes and light and dark mode all work the same in either direction.

Mixed text, the hard part

Real Arabic email is not purely Arabic. A subject line carries a product name in Latin letters, a sender’s name is transliterated, a message quotes an English error. Put that in a naive layout and the punctuation jumps to the wrong end of the line.

Mailbind isolates every piece of text it did not write — names, subjects, addresses, message bodies — so each is laid out in its own direction inside the line. An Arabic subject with an English product name reads the way its author typed it, and so does an English subject in an otherwise Arabic list.

Reading and writing Arabic mail

• The message body is rendered in its own direction, detected from the content rather than forced to the interface's.
• The composer follows the language you are writing in, including the quoted part of a reply.
• AI summaries are written in the language you read the interface in; suggested replies are written in the language of the sender, so an Arabic message gets an Arabic answer.
• Search works across all three languages, and across all your mailboxes at once.

Three languages, switched per person

The interface language belongs to the account, not to the workspace, so a team can read the same shared inbox in three languages at once. Switching takes one click in the header and the whole page re-renders in the new language and direction, including the parts the server rendered: a link shared with a colleague who reads French arrives in French on the first response, not after a flicker.

The help centre is written in English and French. Where an Arabic reader is served an English article, the page says so instead of pretending otherwise, and the search still works across all of them. Legal pages behave the same way: English and French are authoritative, and the Arabic reader is told which language they are reading.

• Plural rules per language, including the Arabic dual, so counts never read "1 members".
• Dates, times and numbers from the browser's internationalisation data, in the reader's language.
• A right-to-left layout for the phone app as well as the desktop one.

Tested, not assumed

Right-to-left regressions are invisible to anyone who does not read the language, so they are checked automatically. The end-to-end suite loads the public pages and the app in Arabic, asserts that nothing overflows its container in the mirrored layout, and runs an accessibility pass against WCAG 2.2 AA on each page in both directions.

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