Viewing Arabic text in another languages renders non-connected, which is annoying that we have to switch the language to read Arabic text.
When reading Arabic the words flip on another language like English, it will be viewed as " f t a r c e n i M". The words are not connected and it is rendered left to right.
This still occurs when Force Unicode Font option is on.
To reproduce:
Copy: ماينمكرافت
Paste into chat
Should appear as the following in default language settings:
If appears non-connected meaning it isn't fixed, like:
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AgentM
cannot reproduce please tell how to make those arabic letters
@Mevlid Schop
Try to add an Arabic keyboard and switch input language.
Place a sign and type(Anything if you don't have an Arabic keyboard or don't know Arabic)
Switch Minecraft language from English to Arabic you can notice the text render will render incorrectly.
Ezekiel
Is this still a concern in the latest Minecraft version 13w48b? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.
Ok updated, did not check my email for a long time ;D
Updated!
Still exists in latest official release (1.7.9) and snapshot release (14w11b).
To reproduce copy ماينكرافت to the Minecraft chat, same thing will happen.
Reproduced in 14w30b, but still exists
This is a HUGE thing, since we do not want to change our Minecraft language to read Arabic.
Any reason why this is opened yet there is a fix version?
Ezekiel
Because it was attempted to be fixed but found to still be broken.
Sonic: No, because I added a fixed version instead of an affected version. Thanks for noticing.
marcono1234
Should affect every right-to-left language, shouldn't it?
SunCat
It should, but it won't hurt if you check if it's true
Confirmed for 1.13 & 18w30b.
Confirmed for 18w31a.
Confirmed for 18w32a.
Confirmed for 18w33a.
Confirmed for 1.13.1.
Confirmed for 1.13.2-pre2.
Confirmed for 18w49a
Confirmed for 1.14.1 and 1.14.2pre2 and 1.14.2pre3
Confirmed for 1.14.2
I FOUND A TEMPORARY SOLUTION.
All you need is to install attached resource pack (
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When creating a new language in minecraft, in the pack.mcmeta file you can put "bidirectional" : false if the language is not rendered from right to left.
However, if you set it to true it will fix the issue and view both LTR and RTL correctly.
Confirmed for 1.14.3, 1.14.4 and all 1.15 snapshots up until 19w39a.
Confirmed for 1.15.
Confirmed in 1.16 Pre-release 2.
Confirmed in 1.16-pre3.
Confirmed in 1.16-pre4.
Confirmed in 1.16-pre5.
Confirmed in 1.16-pre6.
Confirmed in 1.16-pre7.
Confirmed in 1.16-pre8.
confirmed in 1.16 rc-1
It hasn't been fixed for Hebrew though. Even though 1.16 is out.
in the photo it says םולש it should say שלום.
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Bry10022
I also noticed that the arabic letters do not seem to be connected (actually touching) to one another (given the screenshots)…
marcono1234
This has been fixed in version 20w30a which is a snapshot for the not yet released version 1.16.2. If you are still experiencing this or a similar issue in 20w30a or a newer version please search and if you did not find an existing report create a new one.
boq
Note: they are still not rendered connected, but that's separate issue (which probably is not going to be fixed for long time). This fix restores behavior from description (i.e. characters are correctly reordered and shaped, no matter what language is selected)
this says resolved as fixed but i just tried ingame with the example from the description and it does not work as it should, the characters are backwards.
Did you read the comment above yours?
I think that commenter is referring to the fact that RtL text is still reversed in text boxes like the chat, even though it shows up properly in the right direction