Arabic fonts render backwards when jumping in new line

[YDA93]

Describe the Bug

Arabic fonts render backwards when jumping in new line

Minimal Example to Reproduce

Write a long Arabic sentence and force the text to jump in new line

Expected Behavior

Text should render normally from RTL
The correct sentence is:
طلب رأي ثاني - مستشفى بمرونجراد

Which should be when jumping in new line:
طلب رأي ثاني -
مستشفى بمرونجراد

Actual Behavior

Text became:
ثاني - مستشفى بمرونجراد
طلب رأي

System Information

OS version: macOS 13.3.1 (22E261)
Python version: 3.10.11
XHTML2PDF version: 0.2.9

[timobrembeck]

@YDA93 Thanks for the report! Is this the same issue as #538?

[YDA93]

@timoludwig Yes

[timobrembeck]

Ok, then I'm closing this one for now. I'm going to pin the older issue at a more prominent place since I think it has a very high priority. It's also stopping ourselves from updating to version 0.2.9 (see digitalfabrik/integreat-cms#2047)...

Maybe you could try to downgrade to version 0.2.8 for the moment? This version has other problems, but at least for the right-to-left languages, the bugs are less severe than the current ones.

[YDA93]

@timoludwig Downgrading to 0.2.8 fixes this issue! Thanks