 <p>By setting RightToLeft to Yes, you are asking the Windows text rendering engine to apply the text layout rules used in languages that use a right-to-left order. Arabic and Hebrew. Those rules are pretty subtle, especially because English phrases in those languages are not uncommon. It is not going to render "txeT emaN" as it normally does with Arabic or Hebrew glyphs, that doesn't make sense to anybody. It needs to identify sentences or phrases and reverse those. Quotes are special, they delineate a phrase.</p> <p>Long story short, you are ab-using a feature to get alignment that was <em>really</em> meant to do something far more involved. Don't use it for that.</p>