Multi-script storefront (Hebrew / Arabic / Sanskrit / Gurmukhi), can Magento really do RTL and Devanagari?

Yes. Magento’s store-view-per-locale model handles multi-script cleanly; Shopify forces app workarounds or per-script duplicate stores.

Hebrew + Arabic are right-to-left. Magento ships RTL theme support; Hyvä has an RTL build flag that mirrors layout, swaps icon orientation, and flips breadcrumb direction. The gotcha is mixed-direction content (Hebrew product title with an English brand name inside), you need explicit dir="ltr" spans around the English fragments or text bleeds in unpredictable ways.

Sanskrit Devanagari (Hindu scripture, mantras), Punjabi Gurmukhi (Sikh scripture, Sri Guru Granth Sahib), and Buddhist Mandarin (simplified + traditional) all need correct font stacks, Noto Sans Devanagari, Noto Sans Gurmukhi, Noto Sans CJK SC + TC. These are Google Fonts open-source and self-hostable for Core Web Vitals.

The piece most teams miss: transliteration search. A customer typing “om” in Latin should find products tagged “ॐ”. A customer typing “allah” should find products tagged “الله”. This needs a custom Elasticsearch / OpenSearch synonym list per script, indexed at the attribute level. About 4-8 hours of work per script. Done right, transliteration search lifts non-Latin product discovery by 35-55% based on the analytics I see on shipped stores.