punctuation is wrong in right to left written text like hebrew and arabic
simonfelding opened this issue · 4 comments
Hey! From the screenshots of UTF-8 capabilities, it's a bit jarring that the full stop is all the way to the right when the sentence ends on the left side :) I realize this is probably quite unimportant.
in left to right text, it would look like this: ".i am eating glass and it doesn't hurt"
Can you attach a screenshot, or document steps to reproduce?
Sure.
https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/screenshots/acme.png
If you look at Hebrew, Arabic and Yiddish, you'll see that the sentences have a period at the rightmost position of the sentences, but it should be on the leftmost position as they are right-to-left scripts. Strangely, it looks like it's not an issue for farsi on that picture.
To make it really nice, right to left scripts should also start from the right side of the page. Right to left languages are such a mess 🙂 If you set your keyboard to Hebrew on Linux/mac/windows you'll see what I mean. I understand this isn't a priority, just thought I'd mention it since it hasn't been mentioned before.
Is that simply an issue with the screenshot or sample file itself, or does punctuation get inserted incorrectly when entering text using a right-to-left keyboard setting?
No, libdraw doesn't know R-L at all.