Fix RTL for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages

[coral]

40 minutes ago, Sam Neil said:

It is NOT going to happen. I suggest you use InDesign or even Microsoft Publisher which handles RTL beautifully. 

Thanks. There is a Python project called Arabic Resharper for this problem.

Affnity Development Team can review these codes and maybe learn how to fix this problem.

[Tia Lapis]

Affinity simply currently does not care for complex script support. Probably economic reasons.  Asking again and again won't change that.

[Tia Lapis]

Btw is Kolkata a small city? Never heard it before.

[Tia Lapis]

Ah I see, so Calcutta was renamed, too.

[Old Bruce]

39 minutes ago, Tia Lapis said:

Ah I see, so Calcutta was renamed, too.

Just spelled differently, I remember when Beijing was spelled Peking. Rename is Berlin, Ontario to Kitchener Ontario.

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Rename is Berlin, Ontario to Kitchener Ontario.

Had never heard of that one; thanks.

[Alfred]

11 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Just spelled differently, I remember when Beijing was spelled Peking. Rename is Berlin, Ontario to Kitchener Ontario.

Kolkata is just Calcutta spelled differently, but when Beijing was romanized as Peking or Peiping it was pronounced differently, too. (Beijing should be pronounced ‘bay-JING’ but it’s often mispronounced as ‘bay-ZHING’.)

[Tia Lapis]

Hmm Kolkata and Calcutta are pronounced very differently, too...

[Sam Neil]

2 hours ago, coral said:

Thanks. There is a Python project called Arabic Resharper for this problem.

Affnity Development Team can review these codes and maybe learn how to fix this problem.

Don't think Affinity suite was written in Python, RTL and Indic languages will not be supported. So it is best not to post about this topic as you would be whistling into the wind... Stick to your software.

[Alfred]

51 minutes ago, Tia Lapis said:

Hmm Kolkata and Calcutta are pronounced very differently, too...

From the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary:

Kolkata /kɒlˈkʌtə/
Calcutta /kælˈkʌtə/

In other words, only the first vowel sound is slightly different.

 

[Tia Lapis]

Perhaps it's from english being only second language. In german there is a really big difference between the 2 words. Possible that I never spoke it correct. The german Kalkutta is spoken kalˈkʊta

[coral]

2 hours ago, Sam Neil said:

Don't think Affinity suite was written in Python, RTL and Indic languages will not be supported. So it is best not to post about this topic as you would be whistling into the wind... Stick to your software.

I finally found the solution I was looking for. Maybe Affinity will buy it and give it as a gift It's a small program, but it does a great job: RTL Fixer

[Sam Neil]

7 hours ago, coral said:

I finally found the solution I was looking for. Maybe Affinity will buy it and give it as a gift It's a small program, but it does a great job: RTL Fixer

Why pay for it when you have a great FREE one? I use this extensively with APUB:

LeoMoon ParsiNegar - Downloads • LeoMoon Studios

[coral]

2 hours ago, Sam Neil said:

Why pay for it when you have a great FREE one? I use this extensively with APUB:

LeoMoon ParsiNegar - Downloads • LeoMoon Studios

OOO that's great. You saved me from paying $29. Thank you.

[Sam Neil]

55 minutes ago, coral said:

OOO that's great. You saved me from paying $29. Thank you.

You are welcome. It works really well with APUB.

[Mohannad]

so since 2019, and still they have fix this issue.

 

great application, any body who need arabic language in this application leave them bad review at app store and comments that says " it doesn't support Arabic, Hebru , urdu"

after that they will start to take you seriously

[Patrick Connor]

1 hour ago, Mohannad said:

leave them bad review at app store and comments that says " it doesn't support Arabic, Hebru , urdu"

We do not claim to support these languages, so it is not so much a fix as a request to implement a major feature which we have often said is unlikely to appear in version 1.x. It is not a good or bad review to state a fact, which you are welcome to do to help others with their purchasing 1.x decision but we are already aware how serious this request is

[Sam Neil]

22 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

We do not claim to support these languages, so it is not so much a fix as a request to implement a major feature which we have often said is unlikely to appear in version 1.x. It is not a good or bad review to state a fact, which you are welcome to do to help others with their purchasing 1.x decision but we are already aware how serious this request is

Thank you Patrick! If only you knew the amount of hoops I had to run through to get my project to come to fruition...

[Tia Lapis]

I'm quite sure there aren't any clear plans for 2.x or even 3.x, yet.

[Patrick Connor]

12 minutes ago, Arun Sarkar said:

But can i expect it (Full LTR & RTL) will come in  2.x or 3.x?

Sorry, as always this is not my place to share our plans, and I think you will need to wait for future announcements to know what will be in those products. I understand that is a frustrating answer, but I cannot say more

[Mohannad]

30 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

Sorry, as always this is not my place to share our plans, and I think you will need to wait for future announcements to know what will be in those products. I understand that is a frustrating answer, but I cannot say more

I want  talk to the manager ( as any customer will say in this situation ), you should discuss this in Monday meetings and comeback to us with an answer or someone can answer.

i know am rude, but i have waited and wited and waited and waited, and 3 years later.  still you guys didn't give us a straight answer,proper solution or offer a free tool as temporary solution to your customer who had high expectations for you.

[Tia Lapis]

Why do you need ANSI? Affinity is supporting Unicode fonts just fine. just not the needed special features for complex script and rtl writing systems.

[Tia Lapis]

1 minute ago, Mohannad said:

I want  talk to the manager ( as any customer will say in this situation ), you should discuss this in Monday meetings and comeback to us with an answer or someone can answer.

i know am rude, but i have waited and wited and waited and waited, and 3 years later.  still you guys didn't give us a straight answer,proper solution or offer a free tool as temporary solution to your customer who had high expectations for you.

What made you wait for it? As far as I remeber Serif never said anything about support for rtl complex script support in their Affinity line.

[Mohannad]

as far as i see this  was not a problem to you, and you haven't following this topic, they have said we are thinking about it, we gonna conisder in the long term.

so yes they said they will find solution.

better thing to do not to stick your nose in places you don't know about it .

[Patrick Connor]

Mohannad that is no way to respond to the posts this thread. Anyone can participate if they follow the forum guideleines