Arabic rendered as Left to Right

[hubaishan]

Windows Terminal version

1.22.240823002-preview

Windows build number

10.0.19045.4529

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

write Arabic text

Expected Behavior

from ver 1.19.11213.0 disabling "AtlasEngine"

Actual Behavior

[lhecker]

I did this intentionally so that the Arabic mode in (neo)vim would work (vim -A). For instance, using the sample text from https://r12a.github.io/scripts/arab/arb.html:

I was hoping to add a setting in the future which enables RTL overrides and/or detection, but I haven't gotten there yet myself.

[zadjii-msft]

Probably should just bucket that with #538, yea?

[lhecker]

Yeah, I'll close this as a /duplicate of #538. Thank you for the report though!

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[hubaishan]

Yeah, I'll close this as a /duplicate of #538. Thank you for the report though!

@lhecker these are tow different bugs this is new bug in AtlasEngine, #538 is old bug before AtlasEngine.

[DHowett]

#538 tracks us actually supporting RTL text properly. It is the right issue for RTL issues because we have not officially declared support for RTL, on the old or the new renderer 😄

[lhecker]

It's also worth mentioning again IMO, that I did this intentionally, so it's definitely not a bug. I did that because vim -A among others actively expects a terminal to not support RTL. I suspect it'll be easier to add RTL support once the rendering architecture has been refactored, because then AtlasEngine will be a fraction of its current size.