Arabic type settings mixed with Latin characters looks to be wrong about drawbot HOT 9 CLOSED

CoreText has support we can wrap: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coretext/ctwritingdirection?language=objc

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a quick PR is comming (no test yet)

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@typemytype

It could possible be automated related to language('ar') but then we need to find out what the language direction is...

It is probably best not attempted as a single language can be written in two scripts with different directionality, e.g. Uzbek. But if you wanted contemporary defaults and used only the 2-letter codes, there are not that many…

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here the text Grtsk میتوان در بسیاری

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Yes, maybe we need a writingDirection() function or something like it. I'm not sure how this should work internally.

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Can this be part of our language() function, or do you think it's better to add a new API function?

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well a writingDirection(direction) sound good and explicit...

with direction options:

• None -> kCTWritingDirectionNatural (also the default)
• "l2r" -> kCTWritingDirectionLeftToRight
• "r2l" -> kCTWritingDirectionRightToLeft

It could possible be automated related to language('ar') but then we need to find out what the language direction is...

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#568

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true, @MrBrezina I prefer an explicit api, no magic guessing

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