---- Reported by kbr 2007-10-29 11:12:16 ---- Patrick Murris from the NASA World Wind Java project has indicated some potential issues with bi-directional text and the TextRenderer: """ I keep throwing foreign text from Wikipedia into the text renderer, and i'm still wondering exactly what the application should handle and what does the text renderer takes care of. I must admit i am not very familiar with the subject of ltr vs rtl text direction and such... not mentioning top to bottom. Still, looking at some arabic text - and looking hard to follow the glyphs... i can tell there are some ltr-rtl fighting in there - see screenshot (and look at both the textbox on the left and the main text display over the globe). My current Locale is french... i'm using arial, and i didnt try to switch locales for text rendering either. I can fairly imagine the application would have to handle (or know) whether the text direction should be ltr or rtl and decide the text left/right edge location accordingly. Then the text renderer should draw from the given x,y in the proper direction. Is that the way it is supposed to work ? If yes, then how does the application knows the proper text direction for a given text string ? """ The attached screen shot is an example. I am not sure there is an issue here. The Swing JTextArea requires a ComponentOrientation to get its text to render in the correct direction. The JOGL TextRenderer should handle, and appears to be handling, combined right-to-left and left-to-right glyphs on the same line correctly. ---- Additional Comments From kbr 2007-10-29 11:12:55 ---- Created an attachment Screen shot showing difference between JTextArea and TextRenderer ---- Additional Comments From kbr 2008-03-30 16:47:51 ---- At this point I don't think there is a bug in the JOGL TextRenderer. Closing as "invalid". Reopen this bug or file a new one if there is a concrete issue with a test case. --- Bug imported by sgothel@jausoft.com 2010-03-24 07:51 EDT --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 329 at https://jogl.dev.java.net/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=329 Imported an attachment (id=110) The original submitter of attachment 110 [details] is unknown. Reassigning to the person who moved it here: sgothel@jausoft.com.