reutenauer/polyglossia — Issue #5: footnoterule left aligned when using Persian as the main language
Author: vafa
Created: 2011-11-03 05:09:15+00:00
State: open

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{farsi}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\newfontfamily\farsifont[Script=Arabic]{XB Zar}
\begin{document}
\footnote{این یک زیرنویس است.}
\end{document}

This is because polyglossia does not make use of \autofootnoterule, \leftfootnoterule and \textwidthfootnoterule of bidi package.