How to write Right-To-Left text in Gaphor?

[shep...@googlemail.com]

Hi,
I just downloaded Gaphor and it does what I want.
But there is one drawback: When I type text in a right to left
language like Persian or Arabic, it screws the text up and displays it
in reverse.

Is there anyway to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

[Arjan Molenaar]

On 22 Jun 2011, at 19:09, shep...@googlemail.com wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,

> I just downloaded Gaphor and it does what I want.
> But there is one drawback: When I type text in a right to left
> language like Persian or Arabic, it screws the text up and displays it
> in reverse.

Ouch.

> Is there anyway to solve this problem?

I have not thought about that one. Possibly Cairo contains some solution for dealing with RTL languages.

We quit using pangocairo, since it seemed overhead. Only now it would come in handy, since Cairo's text api is not that powerful.

I think I have to fix some bits of code to get it working.

Thanks for pointing out.

> Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Arjan