RTL (Persian / Arabic) Text Support for Defold šŸŽ®

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I donā€™t see a difference from your google text and our ingame text. At least not any reordered words? Can you specify more specifically?

I think if you would put it in a google sheet, and use the same font, itā€™s easier for you to spot any differences.

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I havenā€™t had a chance to check the text system in the new version yet.
But one of the challenges of displaying RTL text is that, when the text is multi-line, the line order is reversed.
But in your screenshots, I donā€™t see any problem.

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Thanks both, yes thatā€™s what I was referring to, I wasnā€™t sure if the line order was correct in the multiline version. Thanks for the clarification, it looks like everythingā€™s all working my side now.

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@thawri Can I ask for your expertise in this example, if this is correct? And is it better/more convenient to display RTL with Pivot on the other side?

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I can just guess the lines are not reversed, because ā€œRTLā€ and ā€œLTRā€ are in the bottom line - so it should be actually, that those are in the line above (reversed, from bottom to the top)?

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yes, it is correct.
and it is better to set East as pivot for RTL texts.

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Hopefully soon, we can change the pivot at runtime, in order to more easily switch languages as well :slight_smile:

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The localization example is now on the Defold examples :

Btw, this is a first time we made an example with Lua modules being used. This was meant to simplify understanding the code and modularize it. Iā€™d be very fond of any feedback! :wink:

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