framed, framedtext, TEXpage (and may be others), no longer honor
directional switches. I'm sure TEXpage at least was OK a month ago.

\pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT\pardir TRT\textdir TRT
\starttext
\startTEXpage
\input tufte
\stopTEXpage
\framed{Hello world}
\startframedtext
\input tufte
\stopframedtext
\startbackground
\input tufte
\stopbackground
\stoptext

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer