RTL text word-wraps in reverse order

[openstreetmap-trac]

Reporter: Esperanza36
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 10.50pm, Tuesday, 20th January 2009]

There is a problem with Arabic names rendering on Mapnik, only for areas, like hospitals, public buildings, parks names ... and not for street names.

Words are correctly rendered, but they are not in the good order (last are first).
For instance here : http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.42411&lon=34.33985&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF

(good one)

is on OSM the contrary

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.30am, Wednesday, 21st January 2009]

I've just looked at that link at it appears to be rendering in the way you say is correct - it is rendered as " " at the moment. Are you seeing something different?

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Esperanza36
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.34pm, Wednesday, 21st January 2009]

No, first we must have (refugee camp)
then (deir) and last (al balah) on the second line of :
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.42411&lon=34.33985&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF
So words are not in the right place

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.01pm, Thursday, 22nd January 2009]

In that case I think the problem is that the tagging is wrong. If I look at that node in my web browser by going to http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/327387610 then my browser renders it (in both the name and name:ar tags) as " " but you seem to be saying it should be the other way round?

So is my browser also getting the rendering wrong? or are you saying it should be rendered differently on the map to when written as a string?

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Esperanza36
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.43pm, Thursday, 22nd January 2009]

The tag is ok : http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/327387610
name:ar =

The problem is that on the first line on mapnik rendering (no problem with osmander)
we should have

and not

On the second line instead of

we should have

I use Mozilla ...

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 4.46pm, Thursday, 22nd January 2009]

OK. So what you're saying is that the words on the map should be rendered in a different order to the words when written as a string? Why is that?

Is the issue that there is a line break and that in arabic you read lines from bottom to top rather than top to bottom?

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Esperanza36
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.53pm, Thursday, 22nd January 2009]

In Arabic, we read lines from top to bottom ;)
The bug happens only when there is lines, not when it's one line (street names, ...)

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.56pm, Thursday, 22nd January 2009]

Aha... I get it now... This is a mapnik problem though, so it will need to be raised in the mapnik trac as it isn't something in our code base that is wrong.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: tom[at]compton.nu
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.27pm, Thursday, 22nd January 2009]

I have raised this in the mapnik trac as http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/189.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.55pm, Saturday, 15th August 2009]

#2182 has been marked as duplicate of this ticket.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: jahudie[at]gmail.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.46pm, Monday, 27th December 2010]

It is really about time to take care of this issue.
Just imagine that we would write "Kingdom United" instead of "United Kingdom"
It would be fixed right away.

Please check if you could fix this bug somehow that was opened.