Arabic and RTL (AIR ALL) : Disconnected and reversed Arabic letters in Android and IOS

[MuradHuniti]

Problem Description

• Which AIR SDK did you use?
  AIR 33 Beta and all AIR versions

• Describe the affected environment:
  All environments except AIR for PC.

• Can you reproduce it yourself, or did you get reports from other users? If so, how many users are affected (percentage)?
  Arabic is written in a disconnected letters form and reversed letters order just like English:
  مراد الحنيطي correct only on PC
  ي ط ي ن ح ل ا د ا ر م you will see this incorrect form on Android and IOS.

• Arabic is a major language that we cannot ignore. There are 100+ million users in the MENA region.

[m4her1]

I have this issue, too. Has this been addressed anywhere???

[ajwfrost]

Hi - curious where you're seeing this text, is this in the application name or similar?
In order to use Arabic within an application, you'd either need to use StageText, or use the FTE classes as these support RTL and ligatures etc..
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/engine/TextBlock.html

[m4her1]

Hi, Andrew, Thank you for writing back. I was just curious if the bug reported to Adobe in 2018 has been addressed, because I was using a TextField Object for Air on Android, and the letters show up disjointed. Here is the reference for the Adobe Forum https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate/arabic-disconnected-letters-air-for-android/m-p/11280885?page=1#M205870 It was reported to Adobe as a bug and there were no further updates on it. Here is the bud link https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/AIR-4198719 Your solution for using FTE is not a bad work around for it, but I am just curious why this has not been addressed, Thank you -Mahmoud

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[ajwfrost]

@m4her1 as far as I was aware, this is a "by design" feature rather than a bug. TextField doesn't support RTL languages but TextLine does - I think there are some extra complexities around this. I guess theoretically it would be possible to hook up the TextField APIs to use an object that's using the FTE mechanisms under the hood.

TextField and TextLine/FTE use different formats of font information though (CFF) so it may just be a historical restriction: if you want to use TextLine and RTL, you need to provide CFF font data.

thanks

[MuradHuniti]

I have this issue, too. Has this been addressed anywhere???

عزيزي

طورت مكتبة خاصة للغة العربية سهلة الاستخدام بعد طول عناء مع الشركة من عام 2010
المهتم يراسلني

muradhuniti@gmail.com

[m4her1]

Thank you so much, Murad. I already emailed you- I am definitely interested