Base text direction is an integral part of the overall Bidi support and enables correct editing and readability of dynamic data for BIDI languages ( Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu)

Carbon code allows to specify following settings for the text direction, using textDir property :

• auto
• ltr
• rtl
  However most of Carbon components does not apply text direction processing expected to happen according to this property settings and as a result of that , actual text direction inherits the page direction (which is by default LTR and is RTL when RTL style is applied), independently on textDir property setting

Examples:

1. Base text direction is not applied on Rich text editor

Steps:
Apply RTL style on Carbon
Set textDir property = rtl
Text inside editor still has LTR text direction

2. Base text direction is not applied on combo box
   Steps:
   Apply RTL style on Carbon
   Set textDir property = auto
   Text at combo has RTL text direction

@mattrosno , @joshblack FYI