Hi,
Again this has been partly discussed on the list and solutions were already there but I didn't see anyone mention the issue with figures.
In the following MWE we have 20 pages of a simple text with a section, a footnote and a figure on each page. The page numbers and footnote numbers are fine. Section numbers need some care to appear correctly. I couldn't figure out a similar mechanism for figure numbers, though. The example does not use Indic numbers, which does not have any effect on the problem.
\setupdirections[bidi=global,method=two]
\setupalign[r2l]
%% If we don't provide the numbercommand, we'll see reverse numbering starting from 10.
\setuphead[chapter,title,section,subject][numbercommand=\righttoleft]
%% The following does not accept any numbercommand but it has numberconversion.
%% As a result figure numbers are shown in reverse.
\setupcaptions[numberstopper={:}]
%% Footnotes are fine and accept conversion.
%% Page numbers are also okay.
\starttext
\dorecurse{20}{
\section{Test}
This is a very simple text.
And we have a footnote\footnote{Footnote text}.
\placefigure
[][]
{Test figure.}
{\centerline{FIGURE BODY}}
\page
}
\stoptext
I use TeXLive 2015 on Mac OS X,
CONTEXT 2015.05.18 12:26, and
LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015) (rev 5238).
Thanks a lot!
—MHB