[Bf-committers] How & When could we support right-to-left languages?

[Charlie Jolly]

Displaying Arabic and other Right-to-Left languages requires some form 
of text shaping engine, flipping or mirroring text is not really the 
correct solution. Arabic and Hebrew are actually bi-directional 
languages. Numbers are displayed left-to-right like English.

..some possibly useful links below....

Essay
http://behdad.org/text/

Text shaping
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz
http://www.pango.org/

Bidi
http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/bidirectional-text.html
http://www.smontagu.org/nscpsite/350-2_files/v3_document.htm
http://fribidi.org/