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Invoices in Bangla and Arabic, right to left where they belong

What changes when an invoice is read from right to left, and what must not.

Thabit ibn Qurra · 1 min read

An Arabic invoice is not an English one with the text swapped. The whole layout mirrors: the logo moves to the right, the totals to the left. Numbers, email addresses and references do not.

#What mirrors and what stays

  • Columns and alignment mirror
  • Phone numbers and IBANs stay left to right
  • Currency follows the client’s locale, not yours

#Let the platform format it

Every amount and date goes through the browser’s own formatting, so a taka amount reads the way a reader in Dhaka expects.

format.js 
new Intl.NumberFormat('bn-BD', { style: 'currency', currency: 'BDT' }).format(125000);
// ৳১,২৫,০০০.০০