Hello! Right to left text.

[quakerquickoats]

Hello. Great work on this! Very happy to have found it. After implementing the example, then adding a "C.show_text" in Drawings module, I notice that the web version displays Right-to-Left languages (Arabic, Hebrew) correctly in the web (.bc.js) version, but it does not do so correctly in the cli (.exe) version. Should I reverse my strings for now ? Curious what the problem is. I've tried several fonts with C.set_font_face with some different behaviors but the default is the closest to what is expected. Thanks !

[quakerquickoats]

I have noticed after writing the previous issue, that if i reverse all strings to C.set_font_face, everything works the correct way on web and cli. Not the ideal solution but it simplifies the current situation for the moment.

[jacquev6]

Thank you for reporting this!

Can you please provide some code showing the issue, to help me investigate?

[jacquev6]

Notes:

• text-related functions were difficult to implement in JsOfOCairo because HTML5 canvas support for drawing text is different than Cairo.
• Cairo itself does not claim to be able to draw right-to-left text and delegates this functionality to Pango, which is not available in browsers as far as I know.

The current issue is still valid because it shows a different behavior between Cairo and JsOfOCairo. This difference should either be fixed or documented.

[quakerquickoats]

Any Right To Left string Unicode string. As mentioned i used the example code already provided. My idea for a solution is to reverse strings on the "CLI" executable side when I am sure they are RtoL.

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[jacquev6]

It may seem obvious to you, but it's not for me. In particular, I'm not familiar with what a "right to left unicode string" is.

I'm willing to investigate the issue. I just don't want to waste both our times asking you more questions after this one. Please provide a minimal code example showing the issue that I can work on. I know it's going to look just like the quick start example, but I really need it to investigate.