Left to Right vs Right to Left (localisation and table execution at run time)

[kpjfairns]

Will the data table or outline structures within gherkin under localisations that read right to left execute correctly when a localisation tag is present?

Knowing that these are implementation based, likely the variables will do, but it's one that I'm thinking about from a report parser standpoint as well and I'm wondering how the cucumber execution messages are handled in these localisations

Essentially this is about ordering the arrays correctly between localisations when no table header is present, as right to left table columns may be in reverse order from the read order in those languages

Something I'm asking here, while I'm looking into screenreader read order between languages too, and seeing where priority order may be needed via aria or tab index (web)

[luke-hill]

RTL Text is just based on internal metacharacters that instruct the code to be read "right to left". They still exist in the technical code as left to right.

If your question is about data tables with say 3 columns, then no, it would only read those LTR

Can you clarify your question a bit more?

[kpjfairns]

It was mainly the data tables that I was thinking of, and in some languages it does change the order of comprehension, although in practice, knowing data table reverse column sort beforehand may be useful, for some localisations

Thanks