Transform text direction (right-to-left / left-to-right)

PopClip Extensions
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This one is more of a place holder for an idea really. By email:

I’m looking for a Popclip extension to transform a text from Left to Right (like an English text) to Right to Left (Hebrew, Arabic….)

For example

This word in Hebrew
שלום

I want to put it on the other side in one click

שלום

Do you have an extension for that?

I don’t know much about this. I’m wondering if anyone can suggest a method.

I know macOS provides tools for this in certain context menus with standard text controls. Ideally though, a PopClip extension would be agnostic of any in-built commands because they are not always available in every app.

A possible resource:

Edit: Interestingly, the text changed during the process of copying it and pasting it to the forum; in the email, the second example was over on the right-hand side. Tricky stuff this.

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Anyone found a solution?

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Hello Nick,
Did you found a solution?

Thanks a lot

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Not yet!

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There is a rev command among terminal commands. Is there no way to apply this?
For example, in Terminal app
% rev
Hello [return]
→ olleH

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Writing out the selected letters in reverse would be easy.

The question is about changing the text direction of the underlying text field. Right to left languages vs left to right languages.