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Remember the WordPress plugin:The RTLer? Well its author l0uy re-released yesterday the tool as a standalone web service so you can RTL any CSS you need.
But remember, it gives you an overridden RTLed CSS you include in addition to the LTR version, like below:

<!-- Your LTR CSS here -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="all" />
<!-- The generated RTLed CSS here -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="rtl.css" media="all" />

To change the language of a WordPress site, just update the WPLANG constant in your wp-config.php file:

define ('WPLANG', 'ar'); //changes the language of the site to Arabic

WordPress has this very easy and straight forward logic when it comes to RTLing themes. It simply checks for the direction of the language you're using in your WP installation, if it happens to be 'rtl'(Arabic for example) it includes the stylesheet rtl.css if it exists. This means that RTLing a WP theme is creating this rtl.css file. A detailed tutorial is coming up soon about RTLing WP themes

Can't express our happiness about the reaction we've been getting so far. Getting feedback and links to blogs that have been RTLed with the help of the tutorials posted here was just more than amazing *if you could just see the smile on my face right now*.

 Silverlight recipes is into RTL as well. Learn how to add RTL support to Silverlight there. Thanks Shady for the link.

Annoyed by the way Arabic conversations look like in Gtalk? Tech-World "عالم التقنية" published 4 themes you can use to enhance your chatting experience in Arabic. Check it there:

محادثتك في Google Talk باللغة العربية + الابتسامات

So if RTL is "Right to Left" what is RTLing?

Actually I made up this "verb" (I'm sure I'm not alone :)) to describe the process of converting an LTR (left to right) webpage to an RTL webpage. You'll see RTLing in action in all of the multilingual websites(English/Arabic for example) and in this blog as well. Click the العربية link in the top to see the page flipped.