I'm working on an RTL text document and I'd like to switch the display to RTL. The man page doesn't seem to mention anything regarding direction, only encoding.
P.S. I saw other less related questions here (e.g. this), so I hope it's on topic.
less as such does not do this. While it can work with UTF-8 (see FAQ), RTL/LTR is a step further, and less portable. Actually "BIDI" may yield more possibilities than "RTL". But you have to pick through the possibilities. A web search for
less+pager+bidi
finds something that seems promising: LESS-bidi - Direction agnostic stylesheets, but (for whatever reason) the name LESS is misleading since that only deals with CSS for a browser. It has been dormant for nearly 3 years as well.
The Translate Shell page implies it has a workable viewer for BIDI text.
Ubuntu lists a package bidiv which might be useful.