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| author | Rodrigo Arias Mallo <rodarima@gmail.com> | 2025-09-28 20:26:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Rodrigo <rodarima@gmail.com> | 2025-09-28 23:10:55 +0200 |
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diff --git a/324/index.md b/324/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d4c1f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/324/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Title: Text in right-to-left languages is rendered left-to-right +Author: eyalroz +Created: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:17:02 +0000 +State: open + +About 8% of the world uses a right-to-left script for their native language. A much larger fraction (probably over 15%) use an RTL script for a secondary language. And yet - dillo does not seem to support right-to-left scripts. Taking the most common one, Arabic: When we visit a website in Arabic, e.g.: + +https://ar.wikipedia.org/ + +both the text on the tab, and in the rendered page, is rendered left-to-right (also, with the letters disconnected, but that will probably work better when you use a proper Unicode rendering engine). Diacritics also seem to be messed up (they're done through character which result in modifier glyphs). + +--%-- +From: rodarima +Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:58:43 +0000 + +RTL support would be nice, but I would need some help as I don't know any RTL language. Feel free to work on a patch. + +Diacritics and other modifiers are a completely different issue, possibly fixed on the new FLTK, so lets focus on RTL first.
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