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I have some code in Python using PIL, that will print UTF-8 characters to an image. I've noticed that for joining Bidi scripts like Arabic, the same code fails to connect characters correctly (the initial forms are only chosen, medial and final forms aren't utilized) Can anyone recommend a method or technique for solving this particular issue? If you want to keep using PIL, use pyarabicshaping with pybidi or you might want to consider switching to pangocairo which uses HarfBuzz for text shaping. What I did is the following: Python + Wand (Python Lib) +arabic_reshaper(Python Lib) +bidi

I'm using iTextSharp( C# iText port) to create pdfs from text/html. Most of my text is in Hebrew, a Right-To-Left language. My problem is that PDFs show RTL langauge in reverse, so I need to reverse my strings in a way that would only reverse the RTL text without reversing any numbers or text in English. It is my understanding that fribidi allows doing that on linux, but I couldn't find any solutions for this problem for Windows. I would welcome any suggestions, including an alternative to iTextSharp that would do this automatically (if one exists). To show RTL texts by using iTextSharp

Here is my HTML structure: div{ direction: rtl; } span{ direction: ltr; } <div> <span>امروز -2</span> </div> This is expected result: As you see, - sign should come in the beginning of the number. How can I do that? Note: The direction of div should be rtl . ٍEDIT: I generate that number like this: $sums_value = sprintf("%+d",$sums_value); /* sums_value = -2 //=> -2 sums_value = 2 //=> +2 So the number has right format, but I don't know why it will be broken in the output: Since your screenshot has the "-2" in a different span element you could is the unicode-bidi option on that specific span:

I am trying to use the fillText() method on an HTML5 Canvas' 2d Context to draw a string written in Arabic. It works perfectly, until I put a punctuation mark at the end of the string. Then the punctuation mark appears on the wrong side of the string (at the beginning, rather than the end, as if it were a ltr not rtl string). I played with the Context.textAlign property, but that seems to concern only the way the string is drawn relative to the specified position, not the actual direction of the text. Does anyone know of a solution to this? Thanks. Update: The answer I found is to add a "dir"

I'm trying to draw Arabic text onto a Bitmap for display: Bitmap img = Bitmap.createBitmap( (int) f+100, 300, Config.RGB_565); Canvas c = new Canvas(); c.setBitmap( img ); mFace = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(),"DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf"); mPaint.setTypeface(mFace); content = "يجري"; content = ArabicUtilities.reshape( content ); System.out.println("Drawing text: " + content); c.drawText(content, 30, 30, mPaint); The ArabicUtilities class is a tool to reshape the unicode text so the letters are connected. see: http://github.com/agawish/Better-Arabic-Reshaper/ However, the bitmap that is

How can I programmatically check if the browser treats some character as RTL in JavaScript? Maybe creating some transparent DIV and looking at where text is placed? A bit of context. Unicode 5.2 added Avestan alphabet support. So, if the browser has Unicode 5.2 support, it treats characters like U+10B00 as RTL (currently only Firefox does). Otherwise, it treats these characters as LTR, because this is the default. How do I programmatically check this? I'm writing an Avestan input script and I want to override the bidi direction if the browser is too dumb. But, if browser does support Unicode,