Hebrew (right to left) capability in text?

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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is there any way to get this capability other than typing backwards as I do now?

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or mirroring lol … actually forget that , nor does rotate do it

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Hei - we have a wish list item for right-to-left text - it’s currently on the Rhino 7 list: RH-3829.

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Hello Aviva,

Maybe as a work around try copy / pasting the text into the text box.

Thank you,

Andy

p.s. Tried it on my English system and it did not work.

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Hello,
Do you need to get the characters back in reverse order? This command will prompt for a text string and then copy the reverse into the clipboard:
! -_RunPythonScript "import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs;rs.ClipboardText(rs.StringBox()[::-1])"
For instance, entering Hello, World! copies !dlroW ,olleH to the clipboard
You can attach it to a button or to a keyboard shortcut.

-Graham

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Graham, going to try that ASAP! thanks

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Great - let me know how you get on. There are plenty of possible variants e.g. creating a textobject with the given text, …
To expand on the Python script a little it is basically doing this:

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
text_LTR = rs.StringBox() # Get some text
text_RTL = text_LTR[::-1] # reverse it using slice notation
rs.ClipboardText(text_RTL) # copy it to the clipboard
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I do hope you’re impressed with yourself… cuz I sure am. :1st_place_medal::trophy::trophy::trophy: Thanks a MILLION

lol I put the button in the Mesh menu tab by accident - how can I move it into another tab?

thanks again

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You are very welcome :smiley:
Hold shift and drag to move the button

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and be very careful to get it into the proper tab correctly by moving it a drop under or you will just delete it

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Yes thank you Graham.

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I can not use the Rhino because there is no Arabic language for writing
is there a solution ?
thanks

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With Unicode being built into/recognized by all major operating systems now, can RTL scripts please be addressed? The bug fix that @wim mentioned above has been on the books since at least 2015.

What’s more frustrating is that the Text Object dialog box recognizes the correct direction of Hebrew and Arabic scripts when typing directly or pasting in, but as soon as the text object is placed in the viewport it’s reversed. This shouldn’t need to be addressed by a Python hack, however useful a solution that is. Any chance this can be resolved by the release of v.8?

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Hi -

I’m afraid that, as things stand right now, no, that’s not likely.
-wim

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We can still dream in hebrew. For now I fragment text ,reverse list and join text in GH.
Not perfect but it works.

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Wow! Thanks a lot!! :slight_smile:

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Based on this comment, I started building a definition wrapped in HumanUI. It was doing great for Hebrew, and then I tested it on Arabic—unfortunately the fragment/reverse/join doesn’t allow for the ligatures to hook the letters back together and they each appear as individual letters.

Looking for a solution for that, I came across arabic-text.com which was also designed out of frustration that design programs like Photoshop/Illustrator/Rhino inexplicably refuse to handle RTL languages correctly despite Unicode having been the standard for a quarter-century (< /rant>). The website does manage to produce reversed Arabic text with ligatures intact when pasted into Rhino’s _TextObject command. And I can happily report that although I’m sure they didn’t intend for anyone to use it that way, it works for Hebrew too.

Kinda not motivated to finish my GH definition anymore. :sweat_smile:

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Thats great. I will give it a try. תודה רבה.

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מעניין אם אפשר להוסיף ניקוד

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Yeah, I tried it with nikudim. They’re shifted slightly to the left after _TextObject places them in the viewport, but they’re in the accurate order (above and below the letters) and correctly spaced from each other. Easy enough to select all of them and shift them back to the right.

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